Ñaupa for coloring

For several years now, the Ñaupa, this sympathetic Andean ancestor made drawing, accompanies the tasks of the network. He enchants children and adults, he is reproduced and re-animated at different times and spaces.

In the Community Program, at the beginning of each year we send therapy material to children with projected abilities in the communities. In this way, the children with their families can constantly perform –and at the time that suits them best– the replications of the therapies that our field coordinators agree with the families.

A part of these therapies is aimed at preparing the children of the Program with a view to future school inclusion. This involves children doing exercises such as tearing paper, cutting with scissors, gluing pieces of paper, drawing and colouring, among other tasks.

For this reason, every year we also look for colouring books at a reasonable cost ... and every year we are disappointed with the offer. There are coloring books with motifs from European tales, Greek fables, parts of the human body or animals from other continents, to mention the more passable. The least appropriate for our context are those with figures of Superman, Pikachu, Hulk or Batman.

With these accumulated disappointments, last year we asked our brother Alfredo Mires to design a colouring book with Ñaupas, a book of our own.

And look how beautiful it is!

It is now possible to acquire it from our Central Office in Cajamarca.