Our Biggest Step Ever
Update: Aug. 10th. Every penny of recent donations up unto now have been spent. So, though this campaign says
$4,614 raised as of today, for all practical purposes we are down to ZERO now!
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Dear Friends. On behalf of the hundreds (and soon thousands) of children, elders and families we are in service to here in the Sacred Valley we need your help now to get to the most exciting new level with our work.
With profound gratitude and love to all of our angels who helped us get this far and those who step forward now and help make this big next step happen..
We are launching this campaign to propel the work of Amistad Sagrada into a new level of media, communication, connectivity, and economic sustainability.
We already have the most amazing foundation to build upon:
Our school, Yachay Wasicha is thriving. Our varied classes of Art, Music, Quechua, Handicrafts, Weaving, English, Dance, Yoga, theater, and more are so appreciated by the local children and their parents. The classes are well attended and very high quality.
Our Soccer School is thriving, with almost 150 children who never had the opportunity before, participating with us 3 times a week. It is the single biggest ongoing project in Pisaq, with profound implications for fostering healthy community here into the future. As of this week, August 13th, we have begun Volleyball for the girls, and athletics as well.
Our Weaving Cooperative is thriving, supporting some of the poorest (and most skilled) weaving families from the mountain communities of Pisaq. With this next stage that will be enabled by this campaign, we will take our Weaving Coop and our store to a whole new level.
We continue to serve hundreds of elders and people from the mountain communities fresh fruit salad, hot purple corn drink and bread every week in our store location. Our location is a community lounge for the local people. There is nothing else like it in the entire village.
As time goes on and resources allow, we look forward to growing our ability to serve our friends here in Pisaq, The Sacred Valley, and the Indigenous Mountain Communities.
And now, with your help we can finally rise into the organization we were almost meant to be. The groundwork has been laid and we have the heart, dedication and spirit to do this. We have the team. Our projects are live and happening every single day.
If you would like to make a donation,
this would be a most wonderful time to do so.*
Amistad Sagrada and our awesome team are 100% dedicated to continuing to launch, grow and expand the most empowering, inspiring, relevant service projects that have ever happened here in the Sacred Valley.
In truth what we are doing is only a fraction of what we could be, and with your help we are going to take this work to such an incredible new level.
But it is NOW, with our still very humble beginnings with unwavering dedication through a very real and often challenging journey, that we need your help.
With so much love
Sanan
Here is the breakdown of how the funds from this campaign will be used.
This campaign, if fulfilled, would get us back on our feet again. We are sinking right now. While we prayerfully wait for a larger angel to step forward so we can finally get out of our financial quicksand and thrive, this campaign is our lifeline. Your assistance is valued beyond words.
We would love to receive some larger donations, and if you can do that please contact me, but also please know, any sized donations even small ones are so totally welcomed with great gratitude.
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* $10,000 is the payment we owe the owner of the place we rent for our store/coop/school/office etc. for a year.
* $3,000 still owed to our weavers for the theft that recently happened. (You can read more about that HERE . )
* $2,000 Back pay for 2 months and current month pay for our Soccer Coaches for Pisaq Inca Club, our soccer program.
* $1.500 back pay for our workers and team member/
* $500 back pay owed our construction workers for work on the maloka-temple, preparing us to be able to launch all kinds of events (including financially positive ones) on our land as soon as a bathroom is installed.
* $500 to install a bathroom for guests to our soon- to- be events, gatherings and offerings on our land in Chiwonko.
* $500 Cost to maintain our Sunday Program in service to the elders and people of the mountain communities, as well as prepayment for our fruit vendor. For three months.
* $850 of back legal fees owed our lawyers for accountancy and other work they have done for us which though they have been incredibly patient, it puts my relationship with our legal team in a very precarious situation, and they are vital to our existence.
* $400 Electric and Gas until Mid Aug.
* $3,000 which will be the seed fund to launch the Pisaq Snack Shop. This will be our First Ever economic sustainability that we have created... in almost 9 years. It is the first step in creating multiple streams of income to fund our projects
We will sell the most amazing array of yummy snacks and eventually bakery items at our store, which thousands of tourists and journeyers of all kinds pass by every month. Profits will initially be 100% used to build up resources and infrastructure to grow into our own brand of natural products under our name: Embrace Peru, and with our underlying economic foundation, that when people purchase anything from us they are simultaneously funding the service projects of Amistad Sagrada
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Total: $22,250
Wire/Withdrawl Fees $150
Total Needed to bail us out: $22,400
Campaign "Zero" Starting Point: $4,614 (Which is why this campaign is $27,000).
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If you would like a deeper download on our current situation and how you can help in a larger way, please read THIS POST.
Please feel free to be in touch for any reason whatsoever. Let me know if you want to Skype or have any questions at all.
