According to their website www.emana.org

The Methodist Extension to Andean Youth (EMANA) was created in 1988 with the purpose of facing the massive migration of the Aymara people to the cities of northern Chile. The people who migrate, principally for economic reasons, encounter an environment of discrimination and lack of opportunities due in large part to low academic and technical preparation.

The Kusayapu Agricultural Institute was created in response to needs of the Andean people to have access to an education that would help them improve their living conditions, thus diminishing poverty and pressure to migrate to the city. Although the Andeans, largely Aymara Indian, have traditionally lived from agriculture, there was no agricultural school within 1,000 miles. The poverty that has resulted from a lack of adequate technology is responsible in large part for the abandoning of villages and cropland in the northern Andean region of Chile.

The emblem for the Chile UMC comes from a drawing of the Chile national flower, the Copihue, with the addition of the UMC Cross and Flame.

The Kusayapu school emblem comes from the Chile UMC emblem with the boy, the girl, and the corn added to symbolize the children and the study of agriculture at the school.