What does family mean to the Kichwa culture?

In the Kichwa language, it would be translated as "everyone's blanket." Undoubtedly that is what a family does, teach values, provide responsibilities and form a space for social bonding; In an indigenous family, it is taught and sheltered with professions for its future, such as: artisans, goldsmiths, jewelers, so everything they offer is made with their hands, with love, with ancestral education that passes from generation to generation.

One of the products that are most produced with their hands and which is an example of hard work is the production of blankets and ponchos from Otavaleños, the most common is to see empowered women teaching this work to their children; They use tribal figures to remember their indigenous roots and the vivid colors that highlight each characteristic of nature.

Blankets and ponchos means FAMILY.