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Shipibo
The Shipibo Community Outreach Program 
Approximately 30 years ago, as many as 150 different ethno-linguistic groups could be identified living in the rainforest jungles of Peru. Today less than 30 ethnic groups remain. Among these survivors is one of the oldest ancestral groups, the Shipibo people, who now are at risk of becoming extinct. It is estimated that perhaps only 35,000 Shipibo remain living spread out in as many as 300 different family villages. For centuries, these people have survived primarily through their relationship with the jungle and through activities such as hunting, fishing and traditional agriculture. In order to more fully participate in a modern day economy that requires money to purchase clothes and an education for their children, more and more families are leaving their natural environment in the jungle to establish homes in shanty towns located in cities such as Lima. Here they have an opportunity to sell their beautiful textiles and pottery and provide for their families in ways not possible from their home in the jungle.
One of THOTH’s primary efforts to support the Shipibo people this past year has involved a breakfast and lunch program that includes feeding approximately 105 young children up to age 7 and mothers who are breast feeding infants. This food program has provided the only nutritional meal that many of these children have access to on school days. THOTH is deeply committed to exploring solutions to the extremely complex social, political, anthropological and practical challenges that place these beautiful people on the edge of disappearing from our world entirely.
Georgia Putnam, georgia@heartofthehealer.org, serves as the Program Advocate for the betterment of this displaced Shipibo Community, and is evaluating the compatibility of other like-minded organizations to partner with in an attempt to expand our current service of helping these wonderful people reclaim their indigenous roots.
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