What is Mission Q'eros?
It is a Mission for the preservation and continuity of the Q’eros Nation. They are the descendants of a legitimate Inca lineage, a living heart and native to the American continent. Even today they speak Q'echua and maintain the tradition of worshiping Pachamama - Mother Earth, and Apus (spirit of the mountains).
This indigenous nation, after escaping the Spanish conquest, remained for more than 500 years isolated from the colonial and imperialist process happening in Latin America and the result of this is a people who carry on the ancestral teachings and the sensitivity that reigned in our lands before the colonizing invasion.
They are peasants, shepherds, who keep alive the llove, respect and communication with the land they carry within the Sumak Kausay, the Well Living, the Ayni (reciprocity), Ayllu (understanding of collective and community life).
Q'echua, the language of the Q’eros Nation, is one of the most important languages originated in the Andes. Spoken by indigenous people from South America, mainly in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia and Peru, it was dying during the European colonization in the American Continent.
As a result of this and knowing the responsibility that we have to keep our own history alive, since 2012 the NGO Pachamama has developed a program to support the Chalmachimpana community (one of the villages in that nation), promoting the preservation of the Andean worldview, indigenous identity and the rescue of the culture of the Q'eros people.
Over these years we have created a permanent bond that reinforces the quality of life, dignity, appreciation of the culture and tradition of the Q’eros Nation. More than that, our missions foster the economic, food and political sovereignty of these people.