Supporting Indigenous Wisdom-Keepers and Communities

The Isa Weni Amazonian School Project
Education and Preservation of Shipibo Culture in the Next Generation

Maestra Karina and Maestra Silvia are two Peruvian Shipibo healers we are blessed to work with at Soltara Healing Center. When they are not holding ceremonies at Soltara, they are involved with the development of a non-governmental organization called Isa Weni, in the Yarinacocha district near Pucallpa, Peru.

As more and more of the next generation seeks to leave their hometown and find work in more Westernized areas and fields, they recognize the need to help young Shipibo children connect with their heritage and culture, as well as the wisdom and medicine of the Amazon.

Isa Weni was founded under the following lines of action: art, culture, traditional medicine, ecology, and environment. They are seeking financial support to construct, supply, and staff an intercultural teaching center building, where this education will take place more formally: the Isa Weni Amazonian School.

All Shipibo children and young people will be accepted at the school, as well as national and foreign people who are interested in learning and connecting more deeply with the Shipibo culture. This center will provide education on traditional Shipibo culture and curandisimo (healing) for Indigenous children and young people to remember their ancestral roots.

Soltara is proud to support this initiative and its goal to preserve, promote, and cultivate the next generation of Shipibo wisdom-carriers.

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