Through educational programs and workshops, Kichwa Hatari organizes regular Kichwa classes and workshops aimed at passing over knowledge that is rooted in both traditional teachings and our current lived realities. While we believe that language teaching is fundamental in keeping our culture thriving, we also believe that our identity is informed by more than language; it is our reactions and attitudes to the world around us, grounded by the relationships of our ancestors to each other and the land. Our current educational programs include: Kichwa Yachay and Runa Pacha.

Kichwa Yachay

Kichwa Yachay is one of Kichwa Hatari’s oldest initiatives, starting in 2016, with the goal to share Kichwa language and philosophy with our diasporic communities living in New York. Through these classes we have been able to collaborate with organizations like Tinkunakuy, Endangered Language Alliance (ELA), and CLACS at NYU, and have been able to teach over 100 students in our classes.

Runa pacha

Runa Pacha is an intergenerational Andean gardening program aimed at teaching practical urban gardening skills, focusing on Andean crops, Andean agricultural techniques and Kichwa language and cosmology. The goal of these workshops, run in 2019, have been to connect the kichwa, andean, and latinx migrant community to our ancestral seeds, stories and foodways. Through these workshops, we are able to learn about our surroundings and tap into our pacha from any place. Runa Pacha is led by Amara Ullauri.