Q’eros highlands · Cusco, Perú

A spring runs above the village. Let’s bring it home.

Families in Q’eros walk two hours for water that still makes their children sick. We’re building a gravity-fed system from a protected spring to a tap at every door.

Donate Meet the village
$33,600 raised of $48,000 goal
70% funded 812 donors · 14 days left
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Choose what you can give today.

Every amount is matched 1:1 by the Andean Water Trust through the end of the campaign.

Where it goes

Your dollars become pipe, taps, and clean tests.

We cost the system per component, so you can see exactly what a gift builds.

$10

A month of safe water for one family

Chlorine, filters and routine line maintenance for one household.

$25

Pipe one home to the spring

The buried polyethylene run that connects a single house to the main.

$50

A community tap + valve box

A standpost and its concrete valve chamber, shared by four families.

$100

Capture and protect a whole spring

Fences the source, builds the catchment, and tests the water clean.

Justina Mamani, a Q’eros highland woman, standing with her water vessel before the mountains and the spring
In her words
I have carried water up this mountain since I was a girl. I want my granddaughter to open a tap — and to study, instead of walk.
Justina Mamani, 61 Q’eros elder & weaver · drinks from the lower spring
Transparency

You can follow every dollar.

Here is how each $100 is spent. We publish receipts, GPS-tagged build photos, and the independent water-quality report for the finished system.

Audited annually. Manantial is a registered nonprofit; our financials are reviewed by an independent firm and posted publicly each March.

  • Construction & materials on site 82%
  • Transport to the highlands 12%
  • Operations & oversight 6%
Momentum

Recent donors

Updating live
  • Marisol R. Lima, PE · 2 min ago $50
  • Tomás Becker Berlin, DE · 11 min ago $120
  • Anonymous Cusco, PE · 24 min ago $25
  • Grace Okafor Toronto, CA · 38 min ago $200
  • The Vela family Quito, EC · 1 hr ago $75
  • Hiro T. Osaka, JP · 2 hr ago $40
14 days left · matched 1:1

$48,000 turns a two-hour walk into a tap at the door.

We’re 70% there. Close the gap and a whole village drinks clean water by winter.

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