TEZHUNA FUNDRAISING PROJECTS
Youth Education & Empowerment with Ancestral Medicine
Kogui Temple & Community Center
A special initiative to train the younger generations in the sacred, ancestral medicine practices. This project is of highest importance to empower youth to stay connected with their ancestral heritage and to control their own healing journeys. Research gathered from this project will contribute to scaling the initiative to populations outside of the Sierra Nevada.
The construction of a new temple and community center in the Kogui tribal territory, which is the hub of educating Tezhuna spiritual elders. This project will support all generations of Tezhuna leaders to empower the strongest health and most robust spiritual and daily practices.
Coming soon!
Prosthetic Leg for Mamo Rodrigo
At 6 years old and playing near his village in the high mountains of Colombia, Tezhuna spiritual leader Mamo Rodrigo lost his right leg above the knee when he stepped on a landmine set by a guerrilla warfare movement. It was not until 2019, at 30 years of age, that Mamo Rodrigo received his first orthotic prosthesis.
A modern prosthesis is supposed to last for 3 years. Now 6 years later, Mamo Rodrigo has the chance to receive a state-of-the-art, new prosthetic leg during the Tezhuna's 2025 visit to Philadelphia. The clinical team in Philadelphia is confirmed and ready to provide the new prosthesis at cost ($10,000, instead of $35,000).
Donate today to support Mamo Rodrigo with a new prosthetic leg that will empower life-changing upgrades to his health and to his ability to continue serving as an Earth Steward, active Spiritual Elder, and transformational International Teacher.
You can make a difference for this elder who is caring for the whole planet!
And please share this opportunity with others.
Mamo Rodrigo before his first prosthesis was gifted in 2019
Mamo Rodrigo and Mamo Cencio playing sacred musical instruments.
Mamo Rodrigo walking around the Sierra before his first prosthesis, when he initiated the process to bring the first internet kiosk to the Sierra.