CURRENT PROJECTS

The Wauja’s Ulupuene Village, Upper Xingu. ©Marcelo Fortaleza Flores

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."

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Benki praying in the forest at Yorenka Tasorentsi. ©Marcelo Fortaleza Flores

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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AMAZON FUND

Indigenous Peoples in the Brazilian Amazon are seeing an increase in the invasions to their lands while facing the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. Help them safeguard their communities and their precious legacy: the rainforest.

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INTI WASI

Cusco, the historic center of the Tawantinsuyo, is in dire need of good food. Kucho has planned to open a little grocery shop that will supply organic, healthy, traditional produce, including surplus from indigenous chakras (terraced fields), which will give a much-needed boost to indigenous people.

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YAWANAWA REFORESTATION PROJECT

The idea of reforesting goes beyond having a good quality of life. The project brings with it the rescue, strengthening, valuing the culture of the custom, and the tradition of the Yawanawa people.

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DOGON SCHOOL

Please join us in supporting the modern education of children from Dogon villages and communities. These children come from unbroken lineages that preserve the indigenous cultural practices of Meritah (Africa), and are raised to learn the intricacies of working closely with nature.

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APACHE LAND PROJECT

A strong initiative for food sovereignty, health awareness, natural habitat conservation and restoration, ancestral trauma healing, and indigenous youth empowerment.

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NIXIWAKA SCHOOL AT AMPARO

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.

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Ninawa playing at a sacred Samaúma tree. ©

NIXPUPIMA: A MUSICAL COMING OF AGEFOR THE HUNI KUIN

A Huni Kuin myth tells us that the birds and animals which begin to cry andfill the forest with their songs and voices at dawn impart to us a magicalreenactment of creation. Nixpupima initiates undergo a diet and a ritualseclusion as well as moments of ritual silence, exchange and exhaustivedancing. The idea is to become a talented singer like the birds whose songscommand the early morning or to become a great orator like the howlermonkey whose voice echoes over long distances.

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