LIVING GAIA FOUNDATION (SUPPORTING THE HUNI KUIN)
Living Gaia Foundation has been working with the indigenous Huni Kuin in the Jordão region in the Brazilian state of Acre since 2014. The task of Living Gaia is to support the Huni Kuin with a special focus on the cooperation and empowerment of the Huni Kuin women.
Living Gaia works hand in hand withe Huni Kuin on many different projects such as helping to establish the first Huni Kuin Women’s Association called Aibu Dayá (“The Work of Women” in hatxã Kuin ), clean water projects and also emergency relief efforts when there has been flooding in the region.
One of their biggest projects is a land purchase initiative, the Tarayá Conservation Project, whcih aims to protect over 16,000 hectares of primary forest in Acre, implement bioeconomic initiatives, and create a corridor for isolated groups of Indigenous people.