Reflejos de Coquí
Coqui Community, Gulf of Tribugá, Chocó, Colombian Pacific
The Costurero (sewing group) is made by several women from the community and was born during the 2020 pandemic. They were asked to manufacture face masks for the members of the Gulf of Tribugá communities. After the pandemic, the women of the Costurero wanted to diversify the products they made. That is how we sealed our alliance in April 2022. We designed and made key chains that represent marine animals from the region, which in addition to providing an economic alternative to the community, represent biodiversity and promote its conservation. From there, we have proposed educational activities for children and supported entrepreneurship
and community tourism processes in their territory. This is how Reflejos de Coqui was born!
Drawing Workshop about the fauna and flora of the region in Coqui.
Printing workshop with stamps on recovered cotton fabric with the women of the sewing group
Heart of Tarapoto
Santa Clara de Tarapoto Community, Puerto Nariño, Colombian Amazon
In November 2023, we visited for the first time the community of Santa Clara de Tarapoto. A couple of months earlier, the Omacha Foundation, friends and collaborators for years, returned Moeuchi, an Amazonian manatee, to its natural habitat in Lake Tarapoto.
From that moment on, community members became “Moeuchi’s guardians,” reporting on its location, activity and status.
That is why in this project, through key chains shaped like a manatee, we reflect the affection
for Moeuchi, which in Ticuna means “thank you”. This is possible through the collaboration between Ticuna people of the Santa Clara community and the Omacha Foundation to promote local economies in the Colombian Amazon.
