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Our Projects
WEE projects focus on opportunities that allow communities to utilize their agency for preserving, sharing, and evolving their culture through the integration of science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (STEAM) with their traditions.
Your donations directly support projects presented to Whole Earth Engineering, Inc. by Indigenous community leaders. The projects are presented in order of priority. Whole Earth Engineering, Inc. works with collaborators and supporters to fund and manage the projects. Grounded in tradition, each project is directed, planned, and often built by the people of the community.
Program Areas
EDUCATION
Though Indigenous knowledge has been historically undermined as “myth,” it is being recognized as rich sources of timeless data. However, as quickly as its richness is being recognized, negative economic and environmental impacts are erasing traditional peoples. Via our partnership with Expressions for Humanity, educational stipends support school tuition for Q’ero youth.
ENVIRONMENT
Whole Earth Engineering, Inc. works directly with the Chua Chua annex of the Q’ero of Peru, the Last Living Descendants of the Inca. There are specific seasonal opportunities for visiting or volunteering with the community for potato harvesting, alpaca shearing and weaving, agricultural harvesting, and sustainable construction.
ECONOMY
Whole Earth Engineering, Inc. is mitigating the challenges of antiquated perceptions towards Earth’s resources and the loss of Indigenous wisdom by working directly with communities to cultivate substantive educational and economic resources that enable a community to remain intact in present and for future generations.
EXPERIENCE
Whole Earth Engineering, Inc. works with communities, businesses, and individuals who want to integrate holistic culturally appropriate approaches to their own work and/or areas of interest.
Accomplishments
- Sponsored the establishment of AndeanSpirit.org as a 100% Indigenous owned Ecotourism Company in Peru.
- Sponsored the development of the website for AndeanSpirit.org.
- Sponsored a Photography and Video Ethnography program for 8 Q’ero youth.
- Sponsored the establishment of an alpaca cooperative for the Q’ero-Chua Chua Annex.
- Sponsored an alpaca watering hole project.
- Sponsored a water piping project for an elderly couple in Chua Chua.
- Sponsoring youth for completing mechanics certification.
- Sponsoring 2 youth in immersive English language training program.
- Exploring online options for establishing sales of traditional weaving by Q’ero.
- Supported the Q’ero for an international presentation for the Ancient Origins November 2020 Online Conference – First Healers.
- Wrote feature article for the November 2020 International Edition of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering (IISE) monthly magazine.
- Sponsored a trip for 8 Q’ero youth and a family member to visit Inca ancestral sites in April 2021.
- Working with Peruanos Sin Agua for the development of water storage and pond recharge project in Chua Chua, Peru.
- Established relationship with GivePower.org for their 2022 project roster to install solar power at the Q’ero community school in Chua Chua, Peru.
- Submitted application to Engineers Without Borders for the development of water, energy, technology, cyber security, and health infrastructure over a 5-year program period for the 5 Q’ero annexes, starting with the Chua Chua annex.
- Identification of culturally and climatically appropriate traditional terraced water storage systems called Amunas for mitigating water needs throughout dry season in Peru.
- Completion of Traditional Sustainable Guest Houses called Semana Wasi.
- Identification of culturally and climatically appropriate traditional terraced water storage systems called Amunas for mitigating water needs throughout dry season in Peru.