The Alok Institute joins Spiritual Leader and Chief Mapu Huni Kuî for the revitalization and strengthening of the Huwã Karu Yuxibu Center (close to the city of Rio Branco, Acre), as a contribution to the preservation of the culture of the Huni Kuî indigenous community.
The kitchen and dining room (restaurant) are being built; the hammock space reformed; the improved landscaping and planting of vegetables around these spaces. This set of activities, including the prayer house, provides the necessary structure to leverage the medicinal, cultural, gastronomic, tourist, and spiritual programming of the Center.
The Huwã Karu Yuxibu Center intends to grow in its capacity to serve displaced communities, young people, indigenous families who come to the city for study, employment or medical care, and who often come to live in precarious conditions in the periphery. It is also intended to advance the restoration of the forest (which burned down a few years ago).
About the Huwã Karu Yuxibu Center:
The Huwã Karu Yuxibu Center was founded in August 2015 by the Chief and Spiritual Leader Mapu Huni KuÎ and the cultural producer Mirna Rosário, with the aim of strengthening the cultural identity of the Huni KuÎ people.
According to the Instituto Socioambiental (ISA) (Social and Environmental Institute), the Huni Kuî indigenous people, also known as the Kaxinawá, inhabit the Brazilian-Peruvian border in the western Amazon. In Brazil, they total more than 7,535 people and live in Acre and southern Amazonas, with villages in the Alto Juruá and Purus regions and in the Javari Valley.