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El Puente Foundation is a registered 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to making grants and investments focusing on capacity building through Indigenous owned and directed projects. You can make a tax-deductible donation of any denomination by clicking this link below. 

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El Puente Projects

We're fundraising to support the following projects in the Brazilian Amazon in 2023:

  • The Realeza Ethnobotanical Reserve and Reforestation Project will establish the first Ethnobotanical Reserve in the Amazon, together with local Indigenous and Santo Daime communities of the Igarapé Mapia and the Acre, Purus and Juruá big Rivers. An Ethnobotanical Reserve will be developed with the initial planting of approximately 6,000 key medicinal & teacher plants and and pioneer native trees across the model area, in addition to one site for education & research facilities with a retreat/dieta center offering their own regenerative services and sustainable products.

  • Based upon the convergence of ancestral wisdom with the new ecological paradigms of science & enterprises, the Sustainable Ethnobotanicals Research Program (SERP) is being developed in partnership with Indigenous tribes, prestigious scientific institutions and with the Santo Daime Colonia Cinco Mil registered facilities and other intercultural communities. These production facilities will be used for R&D+i protocols to reproduce, grow, plant, map, and conduct phytochemical analysis and ethnopharmacological prospection of main medicinal plants.. The results of this first agronomical & prospective phase will advance scientific research and co-create resilience with the communities and their ecosystems.

  • The House of Cultures (Casa da Cultura) in Rio Branco, the capital of Acre, is powered by the local organization The Xubuã Institute, a non-profit that promotes social, civic, indigenous, environmental, ecological and educational resources for Indigenous Peoples. Their aim is to have the House of Cultures as a primary home for the Intercultural Center for the Appreciation of Indigenous Knowledge, which is intended to be a reference among communities and leaders of indigenous relatives in an urban context. This support arose from the repressed demand brought by the indigenous students themselves, who moved from the deep forest villages to the cities in search of study opportunities in order to enter the job market or graduate courses. The House of Cultures would offer multidisciplinary school reinforcement, vocational support in accordance with the proposals brought by the State Department of Education, Portuguese language, indigenous language and writing workshops, and other intercultural exchange programs.

  • El Puente will help purchase land on the shores of Igarapé Sao Francisco river with local Association Centro Huwa Karu Yuxibu. The proposal, led by the local leader Mapu Huni Kuin and his community, includes an agroforestry and eco-development project replanting ancestral forests, foods and medicines, restoring a watershed, generating sustainable products like cacao, ecological meat, palm fruits and baths products, and a vast permaculture plantation.

Open Impact

Learn more about each of El Puente’s pilot projects and how your donations will directly support these efforts by checking the Open Impact Platform.