🌿 It’s been a while since our last update… Things have been moving fast here at TerraKeepers. 💥 With the initial support we received, we were able to travel alongside our bamboo engineer from Costa Rica to the Colombian Amazon—to build and establish a professional Bamboo Curing Facility for the Kofan Nation. 🔥 This is a huge milestone. A dream becoming reality. For the first time, the Kofan can now harvest, treat, and build with their own bamboo—laying the foundation for a regenerative, sovereign future. 📐 Beyond construction, this means: • Skill-building & economic opportunity • Local infrastructure led by locals • A return to natural abundance But the biggest shift… is internal. This is about breaking the illusion of poverty. About realizing they don’t need to buy materials from outside. About remembering—they already have everything they need. They are not poor. They are powerful. They are sovereign. 🧡 Thank you to all of you epic TerraKeepers for believing in prosperity, dignity, and sovereignty. “We are the Giveback Generation.” #TerraKeepers #IndigenousSovereignty #BambooRevolution #KofanNation #GivebackGeneration #BitcoinForGood #CircularEconomy #decolonizethefuture

Mucho Haux ✨✨✨ Wrapping up our Future Human Retreat w/ a bang! Sooo proud of all the light workers who showed up to do the work- ‘Letting go and letting God.’ We love you ❤️ Thank you @montevelhoretreat for hosting us!

Better Together 🌀 On route to the jungle & counting our blessings to share this most magical journey together @junglevibration 🍃

We are so excited about the amazing progress with the Bamboo project in Putumayo with the Cofan, El Diviso indigenous community!!! February 2025: six members of the community attend a training with @ekawa_bamboolab in Medellin! May 2025: build bamboo curing & processing facility under the guidance of bamboo specialist and professor from University of Costa Rica, Maik August 2025: construction of bamboo workshop/ carpentry for the community… in preparation for the construction of their new community house! Everyone is so excited! Thank you @jaimepenastudio for your architectural design contribution! It is so amazing to see these beautiful structures come to life! Bamboo is an abundant resource in the area and grows much faster than trees! The indigenous of el Diviso are learning how to work with Bamboo and we are all so excited for the many opportunities and possibilities that are opening up for them as a source to build their own structures and as a possibility for economy!

Good intentions are not enough. Working with Indigenous elders has taught us one thing clearly: you don’t show up with ready-made answers—you sit in council, you listen, you learn. Change doesn’t come from top-down charity. It comes when communities lead themselves. At TerraKeepers, giving back means bringing the brightest minds, freedom tech, and tools to the table so they can build what’s needed on their own terms. We’re not here to create dependency. We’re here to stand beside them, to back their vision, and to make sure their wisdom carries into the future. That’s the work. That’s the path. #givebackgeneration #sovereignty #bitcoin #terrakeepers

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11 years with you @junglevibration !!! I love you so so so much ❤️ Thank you for BEING. Thank you for your HEART. *Thank you for loving me as much as you do* To infinite more boogies 🪩 & to infinite more years of loving togetherness. I love you forever I love you for always Forever and ever my Baba you’ll be ❤️

This moment holds so much meaning. I’m standing surrounded by the first 244 pieces of bamboo cured by the Cofán community of El Diviso. Each one represents a shift. A confirmation that transformation is possible when people take change into their own hands. What began as a learning process became a realization. Everything they need is already in their land. From learning how to cut and cure bamboo, to processing it to the right size, to shaping it into their first creation together, the community workshop. This was not easy work. It took patience, trust, and consistency. And it all happened in just six months. Six months ago this was only a vision. Today it stands as proof. Can you imagine one year from now? Five years into the future? This is how regeneration begins. We are TerraKeepers, The Giveback Generation! Thanks you @jaimepenastudio for your unconditional support throughout this process.

This is Taita Otoniel one of the spiritual leaders of the Cofán community of El Diviso. He comes from an unbroken lineage of healers and wisdom keepers who have safeguarded these lands, waters, and medicines for generations. Their knowledge is not something learned from books. It is lived, transmitted, and embodied through ceremony, relationship, and devotion to life. Today, many in the modern world are searching for healing, balance, and harmony. What they are longing for has been preserved here for centuries. Yet these ancient lineages are at risk. The exploitation of their territory is forcing younger generations to leave in search of opportunity. When youth are pushed into cities, the transmission of millenary wisdom breaks. And when the guardians leave the land, it becomes vulnerable to oil, mining, and illicit exploitation. TerraKeepers is acting now. By supporting families directly and creating real opportunities rooted in the land, we help ensure these lineages continue and these territories remain protected. This is about preserving wisdom. Protecting the Earth. And honoring those who have been doing so long before us.

The process of building the Community House for the Cofán Nation of El Diviso has been humbling. It’s not just about bamboo, design, or construction. It’s about rebuilding trust after years of broken promises, and helping a community believe again in what’s possible when we work together. Through the process, I’ve realized that transformation doesn’t start with tools or funding — it starts with belief. Read the full story on Substack 🌿 “It All Starts with a Belief”