ayni - giving back in munay love...
the vancouver downtown eastside women's centre...
When i was 19, it was a good friend who introduced me to the downtown eastside of Vancouver - which opened up my eyes in a huge way.
Not long after, i lived and worked in the area on Hastings street between Gore and Main Streets from 1980 - 1985... i worked on the first staff of Carnegie Centre for 4.5 years in many capacities, in the library, as info-clerk, door-person, secretary to the director and ran the weekly coffeehouse in the Carnegie Theatre. I loved working and living in an amazing community of people who taught me a lot about looking after one another...
Since 1978, the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre has provided a safe space for women and children in the Downtown Eastside. We provide practical support, basic necessities and hot nutritious meals to over 500 women and children every day. We support women to make positive changes in their lives by connecting them to a continuum of services including outreach, advocacy, wellness, recreation, housing and skills development.
Donations are greatly appreciated... which create safe space, basic needs, and positive change every day of the year. 90% of your donations go directly to services that support vulnerable women and their children. Click here to support their important and much-needed work - dewc makes it simple to do online >>
If you are not able to give in monetary funds, DEWC has an ongoing wish-list of much-needed items - perhaps you have something you no longer need to pass on...
Not long after, i lived and worked in the area on Hastings street between Gore and Main Streets from 1980 - 1985... i worked on the first staff of Carnegie Centre for 4.5 years in many capacities, in the library, as info-clerk, door-person, secretary to the director and ran the weekly coffeehouse in the Carnegie Theatre. I loved working and living in an amazing community of people who taught me a lot about looking after one another...
Since 1978, the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre has provided a safe space for women and children in the Downtown Eastside. We provide practical support, basic necessities and hot nutritious meals to over 500 women and children every day. We support women to make positive changes in their lives by connecting them to a continuum of services including outreach, advocacy, wellness, recreation, housing and skills development.
Donations are greatly appreciated... which create safe space, basic needs, and positive change every day of the year. 90% of your donations go directly to services that support vulnerable women and their children. Click here to support their important and much-needed work - dewc makes it simple to do online >>
If you are not able to give in monetary funds, DEWC has an ongoing wish-list of much-needed items - perhaps you have something you no longer need to pass on...
the q'ero ayni fund...
"Follow your own footsteps
Learn from the rivers the trees and the rocks.
Honour the Christ the Buddha.
Your brothers and sisters.
Honour your Earth Mother and the Great Spirit.
Honour yourself and all of creation.
Look with eyes of your soul and engage the essential."
—The Inca Q'ero
Learn from the rivers the trees and the rocks.
Honour the Christ the Buddha.
Your brothers and sisters.
Honour your Earth Mother and the Great Spirit.
Honour yourself and all of creation.
Look with eyes of your soul and engage the essential."
—The Inca Q'ero
"Ayni" is a Quechua word which translates as “reciprocity, balance, harmony"... with all life as communal work; mutual aid and work loaned; debt... sacred reciprocity....
If you give you will receive and if you receive you must give back. This is the one law of the Andean mystical tradition still often witnessed in small mountain villages today. A way of life founded by the Incas upon which, in the high Andes, one's very survival depends. To practice Ayni with all people and all of nature is to open the heart - balance through selfless service. The core guiding principle of the Andean peoples which promotes a lifestyle of sacred reciprocity... neighborly aid to be reciprocated in kind. “Today for you, tomorrow for me.”
The Q’ero concept of Ayni works on the basis of first giving before taking, of honouring, and living in balance and harmony with all things - with each other, and most importantly, with nature and the mother earth, Pachamama.
The Q'ero Ayni website is based out of the UK and their mission for the fund is to raise as much money as possible for the people of the Q'ero Nation in high Andes of Peru.
The aim of the fund is twofold: To help alleviate material poverty in the Q'ero villages and to also to preserve the medicine tradition and its integrity for future generations.
The Q'ero are a tiny nation of around 600 farmers, weavers and medicine people who live in the High Andes of Peru. The medicine people are known as the "Keepers of the Ancient Knowledge."
Of all the indigenous populations of the Andes, they are credited with preserving the spiritual tradition of the Inca - and those that came before them - in its purest form via their oral tradition. To contribute to the fund and for more information, please visit...
If you give you will receive and if you receive you must give back. This is the one law of the Andean mystical tradition still often witnessed in small mountain villages today. A way of life founded by the Incas upon which, in the high Andes, one's very survival depends. To practice Ayni with all people and all of nature is to open the heart - balance through selfless service. The core guiding principle of the Andean peoples which promotes a lifestyle of sacred reciprocity... neighborly aid to be reciprocated in kind. “Today for you, tomorrow for me.”
The Q’ero concept of Ayni works on the basis of first giving before taking, of honouring, and living in balance and harmony with all things - with each other, and most importantly, with nature and the mother earth, Pachamama.
The Q'ero Ayni website is based out of the UK and their mission for the fund is to raise as much money as possible for the people of the Q'ero Nation in high Andes of Peru.
The aim of the fund is twofold: To help alleviate material poverty in the Q'ero villages and to also to preserve the medicine tradition and its integrity for future generations.
The Q'ero are a tiny nation of around 600 farmers, weavers and medicine people who live in the High Andes of Peru. The medicine people are known as the "Keepers of the Ancient Knowledge."
Of all the indigenous populations of the Andes, they are credited with preserving the spiritual tradition of the Inca - and those that came before them - in its purest form via their oral tradition. To contribute to the fund and for more information, please visit...
www.qero.org
"Look with the eyes of your soul and engage
the essential," is the teaching of the Q'ero.
the essential," is the teaching of the Q'ero.
