INDIGENOUS CELEBRATION INC

Constructs and improves community infrastructure, including building a 3-story apuí tree house serving as a visitor center, meeting space, guest lodging, and ceremonial space, and rebuilding basic housing structures in seven villages.

Supports the construction of nurseries for reforestation of degraded lands as part of broader environmental stewardship initiatives in Yawanawá territories.

Demarcates, develops, and operates the Nipei: Garden of Medicines in Mutum Village, a four-hectare medicinal garden that preserves and transmits Yawanawá knowledge of medicinal plants and provides healing treatments for common ailments.

Establishes and operates a school on Yawanawá lands in Acre, Brazil, where elders teach youth traditional knowledge including language, spiritual practices, and rainforest stewardship; provides food, lodging, and school materials to over 100 children from Yawanawá villages and other regions.

Works to preserve, celebrate, and promote Indigenous cultures and their associated ecosystems in the Amazon and surrounding areas, with a focus on the Yawanawá people of Acre, Brazil.

Supports the Yawanawá people in preserving and sharing their traditional knowledge of medicinal and entheogenic plants, many of which remain scientifically undocumented.

Coordinates the Rauti Project of the Women’s Cooperative, which funds community development initiatives including a Community Garden to improve food quality and supports infrastructure, food security, education, health services, and land monitoring technologies through fundraising.

Expanded women’s empowerment initiatives beyond the Yawanawá to include Indigenous women artisans from 21 tribes in the Brazilian Amazon, supporting economic development through craft-based income generation.

Organizes cultural tours in the United States, bringing Yawanawá tribe members to multiple cities to share ancestral songs, traditional games, and cultural practices, reaching thousands including hundreds of children through free public presentations.

Delivers livestock and installs aquaculture systems, including transporting 1,100 native Amazonian fingerlings and constructing fish enclosures, to support food security programs in Mutum Village.

Develops and supports the Yawanawá Artisans Women’s Cooperative, which empowers economically vulnerable families through craft sales; established an alliance to serve as the primary sales platform for Yawanawá crafts and generated tens of thousands of dollars annually to fund community resources.

Distributes goods designed by Yawanawá artisans, including patterns created by Indigenous women in the Amazon, in public spaces across New York City to raise awareness and support.

Provides limited evening electricity via generator, portable hammocks for ceremonies and excursions, and food during large cultural events such as the Mariri Festival to sustain community gatherings.