YAMINO (KAKATAIBO INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY) NEEDS HELP: COVID-19

Marcelo Odicio Angulo, chief of the Indigenous Community Yamino invite you to solidarize and help raise funds to tend to the basic needs of food, leaning supplies and biosafety for Yamino. The Indigenous Community Yamino belongs to the Kakataibo ethnic group and is located in Padre Abad, Ucayali Region, Peru, exactly in the area the damping area of the Cordillera Azul National Park. As is with other indigenous communities, Yamino is not only facing COVID-19 right now, but also hunger. At the moment, approximately 80% of Yamino's people are exhibit COVID-19 symptoms (including elderly). They have not been tested due to lack of health care. There are no jobs or sources of income. There is no possibility of selling food or craftwork.The community’s urgency center is empty and the people of Yamino have no access to basic medical supplies to treat any disease. There is also a dengue epidemic in the area. We are now entering our third month of mandatory quarantine in Perú and the situation has turned unsustainable for the Kakataibo men and women of the Yamino indigenous community. Yamino has given us their art, culture and language, and has directly contributed to the education of tens of young college students in different places of the world. Also, being in the damping area of the Cordillera Azul National Park, its members are active protectors of this natural wonder and of the voluntarily isolated indigenous people living in it. Their contribution to society is invaluable. This is our chance to help them in an unspeakably difficult context.

Roberto de la Puente