Rights
Restoration
Renewal

Healing Bridges exists to reverse the destruction of the A’i of the Colombian Amazon, the Kofan indigenous people. By defending their human rights, we seek the restoration of A’i territory and culture, and a new economy based on their identity and a healthy environment. Our quest is the renewal of the A’i as a sovereign and thriving people.

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A World in Need of Healing

The same industry currently destroying the planet is what has driven the A’i of the Colombian Amazon to the brink of extinction. It unleashed the dispossession, deforestation, and depredation of the A’i territories, and with that, the degradation of their way of life. Social conflict, rampant criminality, violence, and war surrounded their ever-dwindling numbers, and their unity and governance was afflicted from within. Underlying these ills was a profound contempt for A’i indigenous identity which translated into the violation of their human rights, a state of affairs that continues to this day and marches the A’i towards extinction.

Update on our October 2023 visit

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We support the A’i and other communities through discrete food security projects, emergency aid, occasional infrastructure support especially for the construction of ceremonial houses, and supporting the defense of the territory and culture.

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Our Work

The heart of our work is the ritual ceremony of traditional indigenous medicine, the drinking of Yagé. Also known as Ayahuasca, Yagé is a sacred medicine made with a jungle vine and other plants and is administered by the A’i curacas (shamans) who are the A’i’s Traditional Authorities, spiritual leaders who safeguard A’i traditions and culture through their ceremony.

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Our People

Healing Bridges works with the Traditional Authorities, the curacas, and their followers, grandmothers, and other allies of the original A’i reserves of the Colombian Amazon: Santa Rosa del Guamuéz, Afilador, Yarinal, and Santa Rosa de Sucumbíos; and Chandea Na’en of Ecuador. We periodically connect with the Siona Traditional Authorities with whom we all have long-standing ties.