WHAT WE'RE BUILDING
Everything here is a step toward the year we are not needed.
One year in, the water runs, the crew is trained, and over 1,000 m² stands that the community built with its own hands. The next twelve months turn built things into a working economy: a guest house, a food system, and the start of an industry the Kofán lead.
THE MILESTONE
The point where every pillar runs locally.
We call it the Minimum Viable Sovereignty Blueprint. Water in the homes. The school open. Soil alive. Guests hosted. Income moving on Bitcoin rails. It is reached when outside capital begins to fall and income earned on the land begins to rise. After that the relationship continues and the dependency does not.
- Clean Water
- Sustainable Infrastructure
- Regenerative Agriculture
- Renewable Energy
- Education and Lifelong Learning
WHERE THE FUNDING STANDS
$220,000 secured of $600,000.
$400,000 has already been raised and deployed across five pillars in the past year. The next $600,000 reaches the milestone.
A private partner is matching every gift to the projects, dollar for dollar, up to $200,000. $110,000 has been raised and $110,000 matched.
$90,000 of that match is still available until September 21. The next $90,000 given arrives as $180,000.
BUILD ONE
El Nido. The Nest.
Sixteen to twenty guests in six rooms, raised on stilts under a roof woven from guadua and parota seed, with a hammock patio at its heart. The walls are compressed earth block, pressed from the ground the house stands on. The frame is bamboo cut across the river.
The community has always received people who come to heal. Their elders' fathers did it, and their lineage before them. El Nido gives that a home with room enough to do it well.
It is also the modular home in rehearsal. Every technique the first Kofán house will need, the crew learns here first: the panel system, the earth block walls, the methods brought in by the architects and engineers working alongside them.
Underway. Target window five to seven months.
Early concept studies for El Nido, developed with the architectural team. Room count and layout are still in design.
BUILD TWO
Half a hectare for every family that chooses it.
More than twenty years of aerial fumigation and roughly fifty years of an illicit crop economy left the ground stripped and reddish. Colombia suspended the spraying by court order and banned it in 2022. The soil is what remains, and it is the floor every other pillar stands on.
Seventeen families. Yuca, plantain, maize, beans, rice, ají, pineapple and papaya, alongside the medicinal plants the culture depends on. Each plot mapped with the family, on their own land. The half-hectare proposal came from the community, named by the elders in June.
A community biofactory makes what the soil needs on site. The living base is already made: 200 kilograms of microorganism mother mass, gathered from the forest leaf litter beside the community and cultivated with community members in April.
Cacao comes later. This year the neglected cacao stand is recovered as a learning plot, and nothing more.
BUILD THREE
A house shaped like the wings of the guacamaya.
For the Kofán, the guacamaya holds the sky while the people hold the ground. The first Kofán modular home carries that into its shape: a sweeping roof like open wings, raised on stilts like the bird resting in the treetops. Designed together with the community it belongs to.
A 72.8 m² core that each family grows to 96.8 m² over time, built to Colombia's social housing standards. Every home includes a productive room, a space for a workshop, a store, or a trade, so the house is also a place a family earns. It assembles from standardized bamboo panels made in advance at the community's own facility.
Colombia's 2025 decree opened a door. Bamboo, wood, and earth construction now qualify for housing subsidies, permits are free, regional materials cannot be prohibited, and Indigenous communities are prioritized. The community grows the bamboo, holds the skills, and can supply, build, and deploy for its own region.
A finished home is a later phase, and we say so plainly. This year funds the production facility and the first foundations.
Concept design by TribalBamboo with Allpa Maqui, HSRM University of Applied Sciences and Arts, and LF Canon Engineering.
HOW THE PILLARS FEED EACH OTHER
One pillar's waste is another pillar's foundation.
The bamboo workshop already running produces sawdust, ash, and off-cuts. Burned slow in metal drums, dry bamboo becomes biochar, rich in silicon and minerals, and goes into the soil on the food plots. The same bamboo raises the biofactory that makes it.
A system designed to feed itself costs less every year it runs.
JOIN THE WORK
Seed a pillar, or seed the blueprint.
$90,000 of that match is still available until September 21. The next $90,000 given arrives as $180,000.