Completed Projects

Projects

Shamans Confederation

Our Shamans Confederation Project site includes information on the work of traditional Shamans and Interviews from the Forest.

...more at Shamans Online

RESERVA ECOLOGICA ESPIRITUAL CENTRO  WANAMEY

We funded completion of the buildings in the Traditional Garden Center of Centro Wanamey, Peru.

visit Centro Wanamey

Amazanga Kicshuar Lushin River Community Land Conservation Project

LBF provided support to Groupo Osanimi, OSA Foundation, for land title costs and supplies for the school in the jungle area of the community in Ecuador.

The goal of their Amazanga Land Conservation Project's is to purchase land to protect their unique rainforest wilderness in the headwater country of the Lushin River bordering the Sangay National Park in Pastaza Province of Amazonian Ecuador.

The reserve will be a forest sanctuary and used for nature walks and serve as a site for traditional knowledge transmission and indigenous spirituality.

Munay T'ika Traditional School for Children and Adults

Donations for books and supplies and a contribution to the new fund for long-term support of the school continued our financial support of this school and greenhouse built by the high Andes Q'eros community.

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Qéro Pampamesayuq Don Ramón visits Aptos & Mt Madonna, California

Donna Runnalls, Director of the Living Bridges Foundation, introduced Don Ramón, a Qéro elder, to the Santa Cruz and San Jose California community at a Ceremony to Heal the Earth.

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Taricayas Project

We provided financial support to Pro Naturaleza for their Taricayas project in Amazonia Sureste, Proyecto Manu.  

The project's goal is the preservation of the aquatic sideneck turtle populations in the Manu National Park region of Peru in the Manu Biosphere Reserve.

Since our founding in 1995 we have completed projects that brought potable water to a Q'eros community of villages in the high Andes, funded cultural heritage workshops in the Manu Biosphere, connected California students with Q'eros school children, brought traditional Shamans from Peru to the United States, and created a traditional medical garden center at Centro Wanamey in Peru.

Completed Projects & Bridges

Projects for 2005

During 2005 we will direct our efforts towards securing funding for:

Centro Wanamey of the Peruvian Amazon

Cursos de Plantas Medicinales Y Espiritualidad Huachiperi
Huachiperi Cultural Heritage, Education and Preservation Project

Youth education (8-10 yrs. kids of “Huachi” descent) in the traditional use of medicinal herbs and plants, language preservation (only a handful of elders are currently fluent in this endangered language) and projects which sustain the Centers activities.

Projected Needs US$8,000

Group Osanimi

Amazanga Sustainable Community Project of Perimeter Zone Sangay Nat. Park Rainforest of Ecuador

A sustainable living project initiated by Grupo Osanimi to support this important community group which directs its lifeblood to protecting the sacred ancestral lands of its Quechua ancestors and to creating and sustainable community eco-tourism projects in the perimeter zone of this great Endangered Forest.

Besides ecotourism the community plans to launch a “bamboo furniture” project for export and sale within the Napo River Basin.

Projected Needs US$10,000+

Living Bridges Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Projects are funded from grant awards and donations

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