We’re partnering with Water Solutions SAC in Lima and Q’ellqa in Cusco to create an exciting new Buy One Give One program. For every solar power and light kit purchased featuring our new USB Touchlight, we will deliver and install a similar kit in a Q’eros Community in Peru.

The goal is to provide a clean, safe and inexpensive source of power for lighting and cell phone charging. The solar lights will replace and greatly minimize the use of kerosene and batteries for these applications. Here, Dan Vasques from Q’ellqa talks to the villagers inside one of their homes.

From our partners, “The Community of Q’eros is located on the Eastern side of the snowcapped Vilcanota range of the Peruvian Andes. Inhabiting a diverse territory that stretches from heights or “punas” located more than 5000 meters above sea level down to 1400 meters in the Amazonian jungle…The Q’eros, more than most indigenous communities in Peru, have maintained cultural traditions surviving from the pre-Hispanic era. Ranging from agricultural to medical to spiritual, these customs reflect the community’s Andean belief system and its close connection to the Earth and surrounding mountains. The community’s practice of these traditions has earned it the distinction of being the last existing Incan Ayllu.”

Here is the team from Q’ellqa in front of a typical home as well as another house.

Thanks in advance for working with us to make this program successful. We’ll keep you up to date on our progress as we go.

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