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OUR MISSION
Our planet is a miracle. Life has evolved for millions of years, creating a rich and diverse ecosystem, an intricate web where all life can thrive. The climate crisis is the result of a deep man-made imbalance on the Earth. Our species has been extracting, producing, and polluting without much consideration for other forms of life, even our own. This imbalance is a symptom of our alienation from natural rhythms, cycles, and systems, and our lack of caring relationship to our world. This also manifests in ever-increasing crises in mental health, breakdown of communities, and auto-immune diseases being diagnosed at alarming rates. The Boa Foundation works together with indigenous communities worldwide to address these issues holistically, supporting both cultural and natural diversity, and the healing of our selves and the planet.
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YORENKA TASORENTSI
Yorenka Tasorentsi is the dream-come-true of environmental activist and spiritual leader Benki Piyãko. It has continued the Ashaninka project of reforesting farmland even at the brink of urban spaces in the Amazon, capping a 2.5 million-tree reforestation effort using ancient and current techniques of agroforestry to obtain the highest biodiversity.
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One Thousand Villages
A global crowdfunding campaign to support indigenous, riverside peoples, and black "quilombola" communities and all other defenders of Brazilian ecosystems. As Brazilian indigenous activist and curator, Ailton Krenak, has said: “while a dozen sovereign villages living in a network of sustainable communities can save a valley, and thirty can save a region, one thousand villages and their networks could save an entire country."
NIXPUPIMA: A MUSICAL COMING OF AGE FOR THE HUNI KUIN
A Huni Kuin myth tells us that the birds and animals which begin to cry and fill the forest with their songs and voices at dawn impart to us a magical reenactment of creation. Nixpupima initiates undergo a diet and a ritual seclusion as well as moments of ritual silence, exchange and exhaustive dancing. The idea is to become a talented singer like the birds whose songs command the early morning or to become a great orator like the howler monkey whose voice echoes over long distances.