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Imagine having no access to clean drinking water for you and your loved ones

I am reaching out to you with this campaign with a heavy heart on behalf of our organization, to request your urgent support for a crucial project in Brazil. I recently visited the Madha and Apurina communities in the heart of the Amazon, and witnessed firsthand the dire situation they are facing in accessing clean drinking water.

The Madha people, who live along the Juruá and Purus rivers, have to drink water from contaminated and polluted sources, causing serious health risks. Children and elders are getting sick and even dying. They live too far away to access help, and the nearest government employee responsible for indigenous affairs is three days away by boat. With a community of 1500 people, the funds and resources needed to drill a deep enough well for clean water are simply out of reach.

Similarly, the Apurina women near Boca do Acre have to walk long distances to fetch water for their families, which is an arduous and time-consuming task. They, too, a community of 450 people, are in desperate need of a sustainable source of clean water.

We feel a deep sense of responsibility to help these communities, and we are urgently seeking your support to make it possible. Our goal is to raise £6,600 to provide clean drinking water to the Madha and Apurina people. With your help, we will hire a specialist to drill a well and purchase necessary equipment, such as a water pump and generator or solar panels, creating a more sustainable long-term solution.

The cost to drill a well in the Madha village, which does not have access to electricity, is £3,700, while it will cost £2,900 to build a well in the Apurina village, where electricity is available. This project will provide a long-term solution for these communities, and will ensure that they have access to safe and clean drinking water.

We know that you have a kind and compassionate heart and we are hoping that you can find it in your heart to help support these communities in their time of need. Every little bit counts, and your donation will go directly towards drilling the wells, purchasing equipment, and ensuring that these two communities have access to clean water.

Please take a moment to read about our Indigenous projects and the successes we've achieved since 2016 on this link: https://www.planetary-healing.org/project-indigenous.html

Thank you for your generosity and support. Together, we can make a difference and provide clean drinking water to those who need it most.

With heartfelt thanks,

Claudia Goncalves


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Dear Friends

We are appealing to your generous heart to join us to help the indigenous people of Brazil. All projects are carefully selected by our co-founders Claudia and Mark with 100% of the money donated going directly to the indigenous people. Claudia visits and follow up on the implementation of each project from beginning to end on a voluntary basis once a year. Any amount, small or big, is very welcome.

We help grassroots groups of indigenous people who are in the frontline and are guardians of the forest so they keep strong and fighting for the Amazon.

This project is about humanity coming together and truly supporting ancient cultures to thrive. If the indigenous people and the forests thrive, we thrive, if they don't survive, we don't survive. They are the guardians of what is left of our forests and they are the guardians of ancient forms of healing. By helping the indigenous people to be strong on themselves we are also helping to preserve the Amazon.

There is much yet to be learned from indigenous people and their culture, yet their individual and cultural survival is seriously threatened by covid-19 as well as modern loggers, miners, multinational corporations, farmers who invade and decimate their forest which is their home.

In donating to our project, you are having an immediate and direct impact on the survival of different indigenous tribes in Brazil as well as the survival of the Amazon .

With this project you are having a positive impact on the lives of a people who have lived for thousands of years teaching humanity about living in harmony with nature. When you tell other people what you have contributed to, you can raise your head with pride that you are making a significant difference to the ecological health of our world.

Act now for the Earth! Thank you!

With deepest gratitude,

Claudia Goncalves and Mark Halliday

 

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our 2022 project


 

In 2022, together we donated £4,826 for the Shanenawa people of Feijo in the Amazon. This was raised via the JustGiving platform, donations on our website and a substantial anonymous donation. It helped the Shanenawa people to become more self-sustainable long-term: with our donation they built a Shohu (spiritual communal space), a house for an elder who had his house destroyed by the floods and another communal space they now lovinly call "Scotland". Deep gratitude to everyone who donated and made it possible.


our 2021 project


 

In 2021, together we raised £1658 With support received from wonderful people in Scotland. With that we donated £840 to build a small house for 2 spiritual elders in Brazil. We have also raised and donated £818.50 to the Apoitcha charity in Brazil who work with children in poverty. Deep gratitude to everyone in our community who have donated to these projects via Just Giving and our website. Together we are stronger and make the change we want to see in the world.


our 2020 project


 

In March 2020 together we raised £1528 to help the Apurina people and the Yawanawa people buy tools, seeds and seedlings to plant vegetables and orange trees to reduce their dependence on buying food outside their tribe. With the Pandemic and quarentine time, this became essencial for their survival.

It was because of your generosity that we were able to help them.  Thank you! 


our 2019 project


From January 2019 to June 2019 we raised £6,000 to help the Kiriri tribe in Minas build a Culture House where they can do crafts work to generate income essential for the survival of their tribe. We also helped them with the construction of their indigenous school, a space to teach their children their own culture, language, unique identity and rituals.

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our 2018 project


Kariri Project in Alagoas
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From Aug 2018 to Dec 2018 we raised £3,000 to help the Kariri Xoco tribe of Alagoas to build a flour mill to fight hunger and malnutrition in their Village.

From Sep 2017 to Sep 2018 we raised £9,000 to help the People of the Amazon in Acre  - Brazil - to build a space for elders to gather, share knowledge and teach future generations their tradition.

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