With Indigenous medicine communities
Ancestral wisdom survives when the people carrying it can thrive at home.
Water that runs, food that regrows, skills that earn, knowledge that stays. The first systems are already standing in the Colombian Amazon, owned by the Kofán of El Diviso.
Our Mission
We build systems. The systems rebuild belief.
We collaborate with Indigenous medicine communities to build it, and we build it so it stays in their hands. Water, food, shelter, energy, and education, community-owned from day one.
The goal is sovereignty; we build with communities, not for them.
For fifty years, an illicit crop economy was the only reliable income the region offered. Outsiders came with promises, took photographs, and left. Almost nothing they announced was ever built. When enough promises break, a community stops expecting anything at all. So the real work runs deeper than infrastructure: every salary paid on time and every structure finished becomes part of the architecture of belief, built by Kofán hands, showing their children that a brighter future is already here.
Already standing
Standing in El Diviso today.
The vision is planetary. The work is specific.
Every number below was built on the ground in El Diviso, Putumayo, with the Kofán community over the last year.
WHAT'S NEXT
What comes next, and what it costs.
A guest house the community owns. Half a hectare of food for every family that chooses it. The first Kofán modular home, and the production line behind it.
$220,000 of $600,000 is secured. A private partner doubles every gift until September 21.
Voices of El Diviso
From the community.
“We have prayed to God for years, for real change to come to our community, especially for our little ones. Many have made promises, but TerraKeepers is the one that has truly made something happen.”
Taita Alberto
Mayor of El Diviso
“This bamboo work is more than rebuilding. It's a path. I tell our kids: what you learn here will stay with you and support you in ways beyond what we can see now.”
Angela Díaz
Mother, El Diviso
The Wisdom
Some knowledge exists nowhere else on Earth.
Indigenous medicine communities have kept their territories alive for thousands of years. They are the original TerraKeepers, and they carry unbroken lineages of knowledge: plants, healing, language, and ways of living with the forest.
TerraKeepers was born inside that wisdom, in relationship with the elders who carry it, and it shaped everything we build. Sovereignty is how the knowledge survives: when a community owns its water, its food, its income, and its future, the keepers of the wisdom can stay, practice, and teach their children. Every system we build protects a lineage.
Taita Otoniel Diaz Queta, Spiritual Leader of El Diviso Kofán Community
Dayra learning what a BTC wallet is and how to receive and send satoshis
Bitcoin at TerraKeepers
A signal, a curriculum, and the skills to hold what the community earns.
We are bringing the My First Bitcoin curriculum to El Diviso in Kofán and Spanish, paired with Starlink connectivity and three community members training as Indigenous Bitcoin educators in the Putumayo.
How we operate
Built to be auditable, replicable, and community-owned.
Projects and Stewardship
Every public donation to a project goes to the field, 100% of it. The team, the travel, and the systems that keep the work standing are funded separately, through the Stewardship Fund.
Indigenous-led on the ground
Decisions in El Diviso are made by the Kofán community. We build with them, on their land, on their terms.
Built in the open
Wells drilled, square meters built, members employed, classrooms wired. We talk about what exists, not what is planned.
We are the Giveback Generation.
If you've read this far, you already understand what we're building. The invitation is to care in the way that builds: systems the community owns, and a reality their children grow up inside.
Every public donation to a project goes to the field, 100% of it. The team, the travel, and the systems that keep the work standing are funded separately through the Stewardship Fund.
Fund the work
$25/mo. Funds one day of salaried bamboo work each month. Steady, legal income a family can count on.
100% model. Every public donation goes directly to projects.