What We Do
Intercultural Education
Improved access to higher education
We believe in intercultural education as a means of creating an inclusive, diverse, and equitable society that honors and celebrates its constituent cultures and identities. We presently support and empower the indigenous student organization OEPIAP, which represents more than 12 ethnicities.
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Permaculture
Developing regenerative land use alternatives
Fusing indigenous wisdom and modern knowledge, we investigate and promote sustainable access to plant medicine, healthy food, and economic opportunities for local communities by creating an integral agriculture model within our Amazon permaculture center.
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Human & Nature Rights
Supporting The Amazonian Indigenous Movement
We are active in the Nature Rights movement that advocates for the recognition of indigenous territorial rights as the best path to protect the most important wilderness on Earth. We help amplify voices of the jungle by providing multimedia tools and investigative work.
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Get Involved
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Want to actively contribute to Chaikuni’s mission?
Translate a report, write an article, lead a fundraising event, or come to Iquitos for a field experience – there are many ways that you can support our work.
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Latest
- September 15, 2023
The Real Amazon Enrichment, a Volunteer's Experience
They say time is relative and for our kind volunteer Laura, it flew by! She arrived at our center hoping to contribute in any way she could to help the Amazon and the people living in it. And she sure did! Laura became the leader of the nursery project. Along with Eder, a local s...
- September 11, 2023
The Return of Wonder
23 hours in airplanes and waiting in airports, 20 minutes by mototaxi, half an hour by boat, 1 hour on foot. 20 degrees warmer, no local train station, no bus, no metro, no hospital. No streetlights, no flushing toilets, no mirrors big enough to see your whole outfit in. No tofu...
- August 23, 2023
Traditional Knowledge of the Amazon: Learning from the Moon and the Ground
Of all the knowledge that the peoples of the Amazon acquired from their environment, one of the most fascinating (besides the deep understanding they have reached about the world of medicinal plants and how to transform the produce and plants of their environment) is the way in w...
The Permaculture Design Course
In the second half of May, 2019, we held our first ever Permaculture Design Course (PDC) at our permaculture centre. A multicultural group of indigenous Shipibo herbalists, local farmers from neighbouring communities, indigenous students from the Achuar and Awajun peoples, Chaikuni staff and friends from the Temple of the Way of Light came together for 10 inspiring days to learn the basics of permaculture, share their own knowledge, and learn about "chacras integrales". The course was masterfully guided by Tierra Martinez and Beatriz Ramirez from the Na’Lu’um Permaculture Institute, both of them bringing a world of knowledge from a life dedicated to permaculture to the Chaikuni Institute and the participants.
