Let’s plant more trees!

Between the months of March and June, while some took advantage of the pandemic to deforest the Amazon, and followed the rising and overflowing of the Bobonaza River, we used part of our confinement time to reforest it…

See our video: Floods – Deforestación – Ecological Crisis

“Floods – Deforestation – Ecological crisis”

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SUPPORT FOR THE “KICHWA PEOPLE OF PAKAYAKU

Since March, we have continued to provide humanitarian support for the reconstruction of the Kichwa people of Pakayaku, following the overflow and flooding of the Bobonaza River on 17 March. Between May and June, we have delivered:

Luzmila Gayas, president of Pakayaku, and community members receive the first delivery of pots.

• Sets of 3 pots for 85 families.
• Food for 30 families.
• Materials for the reconstruction of 15 houses.

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ADDRESSING THE COVID-19 HEALTH CRISIS

• Posters on the prevention of Covid-19, placed at various points in the provinces of Pastaza and Orellana.
• We delivered 500 food kits and 3000 masks to indigenous families in Pastaza and Orellana provinces.
• Delivery of natural remedies, such as Ginger-Verbena extract, eucalyptus essential oil for inhalation (see videos).

Placement of banners on the prevention of the Covid-19 at the Canelos bridge over the Bobonaza River.

Members of Nayumentza’s Shuar community receive food and natural medicine kits.

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SOCIO-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION

Video Clips about natural remedies:

Publication and Video Conference:

· The Lessons of Covid-19: Indigenous Self-Development and Intercultural Health Systems for Today or Tomorrow (https://www.sachawarmi.org/en/en/the-lessons-of-covid-19-indigenous-and-intercultural-health-systems-for-today-or-tomorrow/)

· The Animal Rebellion, the Plants…Nature” (Video conference for the Ecuadorian and Latin American Society of Ethnobiology (02.06.2020) (https://www.sachawarmi.org/en/en/the-rebellion-of-the-animals-the-plants-nature/)

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CULTURE ECONOMY

Amazon Incense: Made from natural resources, a Florasana creation, with copal resin, palo santo, charcoal, yucca starch, eucalyptus and/or citronella essential oil; with an earthenware censer made by Kichwa women ceramists.

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OUR CURRENT PROJECTS

·SACHA TAKI: “To keep the forests singing”: Support to the bio-cultural conservation project of the Kichwa organization “Pueblo Ancestral Kawsak Sacha”, located in the lower basin of the Kuraray River.

·SASAPI: Support to the new community “Sasapi”, of the Ancestral Kichwa Canelos Commune, for the construction of its life Plan. 

·SALUD PROPIA: A process of reflection with the Organization of Kichwa Communities of Arajuno, ACIA-AKAT, on the design and implementation of an Indigenous Health and Intercultural Program.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

To the citizen’s fund POR TODOS, for the economic contributions that the Sacha warmi foundation has transmitted to support indigenous Amazonian communities affected by the Covid-19, the flooding of the Bobonaza River and the oil spill in the Napo River.

To all the people who are in solidarity with us to help improve the health, culture and environment in the indigenous communities and territories in the Ecuadorian Amazon, through healing and strengthening cultural identity.

“In these difficult times we all need and appreciate your support more than ever.”

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