Amazon Conservation Team

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2012 to Dec 31, 2012

Signed

Aug 9, 2013

Return Version

2012v2.1

Gross Receipts

$2,932,174

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Culture: In Colombia, at the ACT-supported Yachaicuri Ethno-Education School of the Colombian department of Caqueta, the students learn first-hand the sustainable farming techniques that allow them to grow their own food, contribute to the food resources of the surrounding communities, and provide an economic base for their institution. In Colombia, for the Inga and Coreguaje indigenous communities of the department of Caqueta, ACT continued to fully fund the operations of two indigenous-run radio stations that broadcast 40 hours of community programming weekly. In Colombia, in the Colombian department of La Guajira, as part of a long-term project managed by the Kogi indigenous people seeking a land use and environmental management proposal for coastal territory stretching from the Tayrona National Park to the settlement of Camarones, ACT provided funding for purchase of the most desired sacred site, where a cultural and ecological preservation center will be constructed. In Suriname, ACT continued to fund the operations of the traditional schools it established in the remote indigenous villages of Kwamalasamutu, Tepu and Sipaliwini and paid teacher stipends. In Suriname, in the remote interior village of Tepu, ACT provided training for a group of Trio indigenous women engaged in a sustainable income generation project focusing on pepper merchandizing. ACT provided guidance in cultivation, compost-making processing, proper weighing, and financial administration.

Activity 3

Health: In Colombia, ACT continued to provide direct support for six indigenous healers and three healers' apprentices of five tribes of the eastern Colombian Andes, allowing them to focus their energies on the restoration of traditional medicinal practices in their communities rather than on personal income-generating activities. ACT also continued to provide indirect support to 40 additional shamans and apprentices and 40 women healers of these tribes. In Colombia, ACT continued to assist a union of more than 60 women healers and their apprentices of four tribes of the Colombian Eastern Andean Amazon to meet annually to review progress made in preserving aspects of their medical and cultural knowledge, in advancing their handicraft production and sustainable agricultural projects, and in providing support to those of their membership in great poverty. Additionally, ACT continues to fund the maintenance of the women's meeting center and its adjoining sustainable aquaculture and poultry farms and traditional, organic gardens while providing technical advice training. This support strengthens the health and traditional cultural basis of at least 350 indigenous families. In Suriname, ACT continued to provide all necessary operational supplies for ACT-constructed traditional medicine clinics in the remote indigenous villages of Kwamalasamutu, Tepu, and Apetina and the Aucaner Maroon village of Gonini Mofo as well as a hospital facility in Kwamalasamutu for longer stays and intergenerational teaching opportunities.

Filer

EIN

54-1915987