Your 2025 Impact

Since PAKA was founded over 9 years ago, serving the communities that create our products has always been at the heart of our mission, and we donate 1% of all revenue back into those Peruvian communities.

Earlier this year, we released our first 2024 Impact Report, alongside an exciting announcement in our journey – the formation of the PAKA Foundation, our own 501(c)(3), to take our impact even further.

As we approach the end of this year, we wanted to share with you, our community, all the impact you’ve helped make happen so far this year, as well as a video behind the scenes.

• 300+ Quechua weavers
• 60,000+ Alpacas
• 500+ Alpaquero families
• 2 Greenhouses
• 15 Scholarships

Below in this article, you’ll find a detailed explanation of what each of those numbers mean.

We also want you to be able to see what this impact visually looks like, and so we created a video that transparently shows our behind-the-scenes journey:

Gisella (Gise, as we call her!) is our Head of Impact, and works directly with the alpaquero and weaver communities to listen to their real needs, share with them, and create plans for how PAKA can most effectively help support their livelihoods and traditions.

The work Gise does goes far beyond a financial impact – from improving the health of alpacas to remodeling a school, she’s on the ground with these incredible communities developing deep relationships and ensuring that we’re creating a regenerative ecosystem for the future.

For centuries, Quechua weavers have passed down their artistry as a living language of color, texture, and story. Through this pillar, we are helping to ensure that heritage continues:

• 300+ Quechua weaving families supported across 10 communities.
• Weaving tools that ease hand and back strain, making weaving sustainable for future generations.
• Workshops on techniques and design, expanding opportunity.
• Cultural gatherings and youth programs that teach the next generation to weave — keeping ancestral knowledge alive

By combining ancient skill with modern support, weaving becomes more than craft — it becomes empowerment.

Stronger communities start with well-being, for both people and the alpacas at the center of Andean life. In the Andes, healthy alpacas means a stronger family, and every nourished child means a brighter tomorrow.

For people:

• Monthly health workshops on anemia, nutrition, dental care, and mental health medical evaluations that detect malnutrition early.
• 7,000+ healthy meals for the weavers and children, improving daily nutrition thanks to our partnership with NGO Semilla.
• 2 Greenhouses - renovations that give alpaquero families access to fresh, homegrown vegetables at 15,000+ feet.

For the alpacas:

• 60,000+ alpacas across 8 communities received essential vitamins, minerals, and supplements as well as antiparasitics and antibiotics.
• 40 male alpacas donated to reduce inbreeding and strengthen the herds for the future - each donated male alpaca benefits ~50 families a year, ensuring long-term sustainability.

Education is the foundation for change. In remote Andes villages, educational infrastructure is very limited even at the youngest of ages. Even in areas like Cusco, college education is a distant dream for many.

• 15 full scholarships through the PAKA Scholars Program and our partnership with Peruvian Hearts, providing access to higher education for young women
• One school renovation in an alpaquero community to create safer, more inspiring places to learn with new classrooms, libraries, and kitchens

Each child who learns in a brighter classroom and each student who earns a scholarship carries the future of their communities forward.

None of this would be possible without the support of our community. Through every sweater, sock, and jacket, you’re helping build a future that preserves tradition, strengthens health, and opens doors - all with the goal to build a regenerative ecosystem that rebuilds a broken supply chain.

One of our main brand pillars is “Ayni,” a word in Quechua that connotes reciprocity. Through what we’re creating, we envision a future where you’re not just connected to where your things come from, who made them, and what made them - but a future where each customer is also steward, directly supporting the origins of where their things come from.

If you ever want to come down to volunteer in 2026, visit our flagship, and meet these incredible communities behind your clothing, please reach out via impact@pakaapparel.com. We’d love to have you.