Off the Road
by monte amador
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Welcome to Mana Studios
Mana Studios started as a collection of people that are exploring the use of multimedia and the benefits of sharing our skills to teach, collaborate, create and empower. We have partnered with an NGO in Peru - Pachamama's Path - and are working closely with the Communities of Q'eros while facilitating donations for their school project. To learn more about our non-profit work, please visit our site here: ManaStudios.ORG
This site is dedicated to the sharing of skills in media and innovative concepts. To further that idea, I will be building a small archive of video tutorials, either my own or links to stellar ones that I've stumbled upon as well.
RECENT STUFF:
- Flooding in Peru – UPDATE
Interactions - The Ccochomocco School :: Community of Q'eros, Peru
indigenous, linkedin, Peru, Q'eros, video - Kawsay Raymi :: *screening at the 2009 Dreamspeakers Film Festival*
documentary, film, indigenous
Kawsay Raymi Documentary *Showing at Dreamspeakers Film Festival*
Just got the news that our little documentary from Peru made it into the Dreamspeakers Film Festival on the summer solstice. It's up in Edmonton, Canada and we'll be heading there with some quick turnaround, but this is going to be a good one.
Pachamama's Path is an indigenous led, non-profit organization that reinforces, promotes and protects the values and knowledge of Andean culture in the Sacred Valley of Peru. By engaging the children, youth, and adults of traditional communities in workshops, special events, cultural exchanges and other integrated educational activities, Pachamama's Path strives to empower the endangered traditional way of life of its members.
Flooding in Peru :: Update
The community of Kusi Kawsay, the sister school of Kusi Ccoyllor and partner in the Andean Education Alliance, has suffered devastating floods due to the bursting of a dam above their town. I will let their words, below, speak for themselves. More information about the school can be found at www.kusikawsay.org. As they say below, money is needed to buy food and clothing for their children. Donations can be sent via Pachamamas Path, a community-run organization: Click for Support. The money will go to their US bank account and then wired directly to the community in Peru. Thank you in advance for your help in this devastating time.
The Ccochomocco school :: community of Q'eros, Peru
After years of asking the government to provide its children with accessible education, the Andean community of Ccochomocco has decided to build its own school. The community, which survives on subsistence farming, is now seeking international support in the last stages of realizing its goal. Before the community began this project, its children had to walk two hours to the nearest school, often arriving to find it without a teacher. As a result, parents have been moving to the city to educate their children, consequently breaking the fiber of the remote mountain community and leaving it vulnerable to mining interests and other forms of environmental and cultural degradation.