Development Work in Colombia

Cooperative Partners:

• Asociacion de Palmor y Secreta
• Sol Nacientes

Profile Development Projects:

• Landmine Victim Assistance: providing job training and rehabilitation clinics for landmine victims

Additional Development Projects:

Indigenous Empowerment - 2009

• Support, develop, and maintain sacred indigenous knowledge and foster self-determination

Land Re-Purchase Program - 2009

• Bought back communal land that had been shrunk by government programs

Heart of the World - 2009

• Initiative to bring elders of the four tribes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains together to walk the sacred spots around their mountains
• Encouraged the elders to teach knowledge to the next generation

 Fondo Paez Cooperative - 1992

• Resuscitated indigenous agricultural knowledge and culture which was suppressed through colonization, conflict, and globalization