Balaio Territory

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TERRITORY · Amazonas, Upper Rio Negro
Balaio
A peri-urban territory near São Gabriel da Cachoeira, the most Indigenous municipality in Brazil (~93%). Work here centers on culture, education and Indigenous cooperativism with Álvaro Tukano.
PEOPLES
Tukano, Baniwa and other Upper Rio Negro peoples, in a region famous for its rock art, origin narratives, and as a major center of cassava domestication.
PRIORITY NEEDS
Cultural center · Communication tools
Territorial leadership
Alvaro Tukano
TERRITORIAL LEADERSHIP
Cooperíndio, Brazil’s first Indigenous cooperative
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AREA
257,000 ha
São Gabriel da Cachoeira region
POPULATION
Upper Rio Negro communities
COMMUNITIES
Peri-urban territory
FOCAL ACTOR
Cooperíndio, Brazil’s first Indigenous cooperative
Projects in Balaio
Priorities defined by the territory’s own leadership
CULTURE
Cultural center
A community cultural center for the Upper Rio Negro peoples, a home for language, memory and exchange between generations.
COMMUNICATION
Communication tools
Equipment and training so communities produce their own narratives and participate in public consultations.
COOPERATIVISM
Sacred Seeds & Cooperíndio
Strengthening Indigenous cooperativism around cassava, peppers and flour houses, in Brazil’s major center of cassava domestication.
SACRED SEEDS
In this territory
Cassava varieties, peppers, flour houses and medicinal plants, an economic front with Cooperíndio and an educational front with the Parintins School.
MANDATE STATUS
No signed mandate here yet
Balaio is an early-stage relationship, and we describe it exactly as that - no more. We only present a territory as a mandated partnership once a written agreement is signed with its Indigenous association.
Our one signed mandate is in Vale do Javari. It sets out the areas of support the association asked for, how priorities are decided and how funds are allocated, with the association in the lead.
What a signed mandate looks like
Scope of support, decision-making, budget agreement and reporting - all agreed in writing before any funds move.
6 territory relationships
1 signed mandate - Vale do Javari
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Your gift funds the priorities set by the territory’s own leadership, and you can track what it enables.
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Associação Floresta Para Todos · CNPJ 66.464.130/0001-93. A registered Brazilian association - not a US 501(c)(3). In partnership with and in support of Indigenous associations defending the Amazon.
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