HEALING BRIDGES
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Mission Statement
Healing Bridges is organized exclusively for the charitable and educational purposes, as defined by Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), including (without limitation) the production of audiovisual products about traditional communities and beliefs, strengthening traditional communities, and bridging the gap between traditional communities and the modern world, ensuring mutual benefit.
About This Cause
Healing Bridges aims to stop the extinction of the A'i, the Kofan indigenous people of the Colombian Amazon, and ensure that they and the modern world develop mutually beneficial relations. The Kofan shamans, the curacas, and their traditional medicine are the center of Kofan culture, are the key to the Kofan renaissance, and have priceless contributions to offer the modern world. To reverse the extinction, Healing Bridges acts under the consent of the Kofan curacas to put pressure on the Colombian Government so that it will restore Kofan territorial boundaries to those it recognized in the 70s and ensure that the Kofan can reclaim their cultural sovereignty in their reservations. Healing Bridges also engages in direct aid, both in emergencies, to strengthen infrastructure, but also to assist the development of small productive projects to achieve food security and food sovereignty. Healing Bridges develops its goals and strategy by gathering the Kofan curacas of five territories, exchanging information in both western and ceremonial settings, and then translating the curacas' desires into targeted petitions to the Colombian Government. Healing Bridges then engages outside actors such as the United Nations or the U.S. Government so that the petitions are respected.