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Imagine yourself as a member of a once thriving community – and now there are only 2000 men, women and children of you left in the world... Furthermore, imagine the land you and your community rely on in order to survive, is been eroded, destroyed and slowly disappears… What if the very existence of your community on this earth is facing destruction?

These are there not just possibilities, but the real probabilities which the remaining 2000 Cofán people of Colombia are now facing.

So who are the Cofán people?

The Cofán people of Colombia are one of the oldest surviving cultures in the Americas – a society that now faces the destruction of their homeland and their way of life - and ultimately, their very existence. 

The Cofán people are considered to be the caretakers of the rainforest, but the past four decades have presented them with the biggest challenges to their solidarity, as they have fought to protect their ancestral lands in the rainforest from the incursion of oil companies and to defend their status as rightful landowners. The rainforest has been depleted; ancestral lands sold from underneath their feet. 

They need the rainforest to survive… But more important, so do we – all of us.

Why?

20% of the oxygen we breathe comes from the rainforest;

25% of all prescribed medicines derive from the rainforest;

And half of all the world species of fish comes from the rainforest.

The jaguar, parakeet and parrot, sacred animals of the Cofán, are also threatened with extinction and their numbers are in rapid decline due to the destructive activities in the Amazon rainforest.

7th Breath has set up a campaign to help the Cofán people. Funds raised will go to ensure that they are able to retain their language, educate their children and pass on their knowledge and guarantee their survival, as well as helping save their young people from being caught up in the drug-trafficking addiction cycle, enabling them also to buy back their ancestral land which is vital to their subsistence and survival.

Please donate now to help save the Cofán people as time is running out. 

Now imagine with your help there may be 2001…2002…2003 Cofán people alive. 

Thank you