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December 3, 2008
Dear Friends,

I invite you to visit our new website www.chakragardens.com, to learn more about the Willka T'ika Children's Fund and my new book Chakra Gardens, Opening the Senses of the Soul.

Lions headChakra Gardens is a gorgeous new coffee table book that explores the beauty, energy and wisdom contained in the gardens at Willka T'ika Guesthouse in Peru's Sacred Valley. This original book will appeal to all lovers of Nature, spiritual seekers and gardeners. It teaches the uses of Inkan medicinal plants and embraces Andean traditions, and I know it will inspire the reader to create his or her own chakra gardens.

All net proceeds from Chakra Gardens donations and sales go directly to our Willka T'ika Children's Fund, to provide Quechua children with enhanced opportunities to thrive and learn.

Please consider making a donation today to the Willka T'ika Children's Fund at www.chakragardens.com. You'll receive this beautiful book as a "thank you" gift with a donation of $100 or more. Or, if you prefer, you may purchase the book for $65. In the USA, the book will be shipped in time for Christmas or Chanukah.

The seed of the Willka T'ika Children's Fund began over twenty-four years ago, as my way of giving back to isolated mountain communities high above the Sacred Valley. Our mission is to foster self-sufficiency in remote communities in the Peruvian Andes and to that end we raise funds to improve educational facilities, build libraries and schoolrooms for primary and secondary education, provide supplemental nutrition and hot meals for children, and provide emergency medical attention.

Together we can all have a positive impact on the Earth by finding our way back to the Garden. Together we can have a tremendous positive impact on the lives of Quechua children. Some of the ongoing projects funded through the Willka T'ika Children's Fund include the building of a secondary school, funding for a Young Women's Academy and the creation of an extracurricular program in art, music, English and business skills for gifted and talented children. These are ambitious programs that can only succeed with funding provided through donations and book sales.

 
Help us create a community to support the Quechua children. Please share this email with your friends, family and colleagues.
With grateful thanks for your support,

Carol Cumes
Willka T'ika Guesthouse
Urubamba, Peru
December 2008

Contributions to the Willka T'ika Children's Fund are tax-deductible to the extent allowed under section 501(c)(3) of the US Internal Revenue Code.