By Luminita Cuna | Project Director
Together we wrote Kamayura history! Thanks to your generous donations we were able to bring to New York the chief of the Kamayura peoples, Kotok Kamayura, all the way from Xingu Indigenous Park in Brazil. He arrived with his son (sponsored separately by Maloca). It was the first time in Kamayura history, and in Xingu history as well, that a traditional Kamayura chief attends the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Chief Kotok Kamayura spoke in the plenary session on Human Rights, the first time a Kamayura voice is heard at the UN. The father and son joined forces with other Indigenous brothers and sisters and advocated for the defense of their territories and their traditional life styles. As a result of the meetings held in New York, the Kamayura obtained a meeting with UNDP in Brasilia and are now in talks of partnering on a project that would demarcate and protect the borders of Xingu Indigenous Park - their homeland - from deforestation and illegal invasions of ranchers.
This trip and this important work would not have been possible without your generosity! Thank you again and please continue to support Indigenous causes worldwide.
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