LifeMosaic’s vision is of an abundant future where empowered communities maintain the mosaic of biological and cultural diversity.
We support communities and movements build their capacity to protect their rights, cultures and territories and to determine their own futures.
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Read moreNext Generation Leadership: We help create unique trainings for indigenous youth, focused on awakening their calling to defend their territories and providing them with the skills to facilitate participatory processes grounded in their own cultures.
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Read moreIndigenous Education: We support the spread of education that is developed in indigenous territories; rooted in the knowledge systems and practices of the ancestors; and helping communities address the challenges of today.
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Indigenous Voices - Youth Training Videos
'Indigenous Voices', a series of trainings for indigenous youth on using storytelling to strengthen and revitalise cultures. The trainings are designed and led by LifeMosaic (www.lifemosaic.net) in partnership with local indigenous filmmakers Takurug Ki & Julius Lumiqued, St James High School Besao; PIKP and the Assisi Foundation.
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Transformative Pathways
LifeMosaic is part of this joint initiative led by indigenous organisations in four countries across Asia, Africa, and the Americas, in support of collective actions towards self-determined land and resource governance, biodiversity conservation and sustainable livelihoods.
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Constructing Autonomy - Stories of Indigenous Governance in Peru
Constructing Autonomy - Stories of Indigenous Governance in PeruA video about indigenous autonomous governance in Peru, looking in detail at the Wampis and Awajun Autonomous Territorial Governments. Many indigenous peoples in the Americas are implementing their own governance systems. Among them are the Wampis and Awajún, who control and manage large territories in northern Peru. Their territories are not only some of the most biodiverse areas on the planet, but also some of the most threatened by mining, the oil industry, illegal logging, and the effects of climate change. Through their autonomous governments, the Wampis and Awajun are confronting these threats, protecting their territories, representing their populations before the Peruvian state, and implementing projects for the benefit of their people. When communities are able to use their deep ancestral wisdom to manage and protect their territories, the benefits are not only for the communities themselves; when water, forests and biodiversity are protected, the benefits are clearly for the country and, indeed, the whole world. This film looks at what these autonomous governments are, why they were created, how they have been managed, their achievements, the challenges they face and their visions for the future.
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