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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.
LEARN MORE The Nixiwaka School is a successful community-planned and community-builteducational center for the preservation of Yawanawá culture. Located at thetraditional Amparo Village, the school hosts an indigenous language literacyprogram, primary and advanced schooling, the learning of traditional craftsand activities as well as large cultural gatherings and cerimonial events.
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."
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