In July 2021 we got a call for urgent help from a Ngabe-Buglé community in the Tabasará River area belonging to their indigenous autonomous territory (Comarca). Many families, including elders and kids, have been forcibly moved, while their homes have been burned or bulldozed down, leaving some of them injured in the process. The situation for these people is very dire and we need to act quickly to assist them.
We organized a trip to the area mid September and built a wooden hut with a rainwater collection system and bunk beds for lots of kids and their care providers. We also built a table and chairs and, working together with the community, we constructed a concrete bridge which they named "Bean" after one of our crew members.
It is now mid November and our crew just came back from the comarca after another go. This time we donated a bunch of building materials from Tribal Gathering to provide temporary shelter, a toilet and communal kitchen space for 83 people who are living rough on the muddy ground, under tarps with heavy tropical rain. We also built 2 toilets for Las Mesitas school, in the area where we worked during our previous trip and we provided tarps, sleeping mats, clothes, food and other basic supplies to the affected families, some of these received from well-meaning neighbors and supporters of our endeavors in solidarity with the indigenous communities.
But their needs are many and our resources limited, so we are currently raising funds to be able to provide more temporary shelter-homes, more facilities and other basic necessities for these struggling indigenous families in our next trip, planned for early December.
Please, contribute to this important cause what you can, or if you are not able to donate at this point, you may share the campaign with your social networks! Every little bit helps and spreading the word is a crucial part to get them the support they desperately need.
Who We Are:
GeoParadise is a 501(c)3 Public Charity based in the U.S. that has been working with native communities throughout the world since 2011. Achieving goals in cultural preservation, education, sustainable agriculture, and other social issues. Each year GeoParadise invites over 60 ancestral indigenous communities from across the globe to come to share with each other and the western world during its main annual cultural exchange "Tribal Gathering".
A huge thanks to all our loyal global family, who has been supporting us in our efforts to secure better living conditions for the indigenous peoples of Latin America over this and the past year... We couldn't do it without your help!
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