The Juruá Valley region is strategically unique to the global bioeconomy because it boasts extraordinary biodiversity and a high degree of endemism, home to species found nowhere else on the planet.
The Puyanawa Indigenous Territory, with its high ecological integrity, serves as a sanctuary for ecological germplasm.
The importance of this territory goes beyond environmental conservation; it concerns the preservation of a unique genetic heritage, the key to understanding which lies in the biocultural memory of the Puyanawa and other peoples who inhabit it.
In this indigenous territory, indigenous school education has been the primary means of protection against biological and cultural erosion in one of the border areas most affected by development pressures in the Amazon.
Ixubay Rabui Puyanawa School
Physical Structure of the School.
200 m2, 8 classrooms, 1 library.
From preschool through high school.
22 Indigenous educators
238 students
1. Purchase of technological equipment for indigenous schools
- Donation of computers, antennas, cameras, projectors, and screens for distance learning.
2. Scholarships for Indigenous Educators
3. Inclusion and Digital Citizenship
Digital learning for the maintenance of digital devices and equipment and the use of inclusive digital technologies.
4. Connect with schools in the Global North
5. Digital and Scientific Literacy
Critical Digital Literacy: Collaborative Research/
6. Mentoring for projects led by Indigenous faculty members
Support for projects that use technology and artificial intelligence, with a focus on the preservation of cultural and genetic heritage.
REGA (Network of Schools Protecting the Amazon) was formally established in 2017, following several years of volunteer work alongside indigenous peoples.
This initiative, which is now finally spreading to other towns, demonstrates that intercultural education, beyond its traditional boundaries, can become a transformative tool for raising awareness, strengthening identities, building lasting bonds, and fostering a more critical and empathetic global citizenship committed to a sustainable future for our planet.
Source: Official website of the Organization of Indigenous Peoples of the Juruá River (OPIRJ)
Projects Led by Indigenous Educators
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