Katukina Fundraiser Hapé | 11% Off Katukina Menta & Samauma

This month, receive 11% off Katukina Menta and Katukina Samauma — two traditional Hapé blends sourced directly from the Noke Ko'í of Acre, Brazil.

They are more than a monthly offering. They are our Fundraiser Hapé. On the ground in Brazil, the NGO Conexão Ancestral leads the work. Our founding sister company Katukina.com and its UK and worldwide customers provided the initial funding. As of this month, Katukina.US and the USA join the circle — the same medicina, the same source, now carrying support from this side of the water.

“The medicine that comes from the forest can also help sustain the people who protect that forest.”

Conexão Ancestral · Campaign briefing, July 28, 2026

Ayni in practice — how it actually works

1. You receive. Your Hapé arrives from the same Noke Ko'í families who prepare it in Acre.
2. The fund replenishes. Sales restore money already committed and donated to the current projects.
3. The forest decides. Funds go to community-led projects the villages name themselves — not projects chosen for them.

There is no donation button here, and no add-on at checkout. Buying the medicina is the mechanism. That is the point of reciprocity rather than charity: the exchange is already the relationship.

Project One · Vari Viño Village

River Mobility & Sovereignty

• 38Community members
• 8 mAluminium bajola boat
• 19 HPMotor + rabeta
• 9 yrsHealing centre served

Vari Viño sits on the Campina River inside the Campina/Katukina Indigenous Territory. Each season the river rises and cuts the village off. Cassava, bananas and corn spoil before reaching market. Medical emergencies turn dangerous. The village's spiritual healing centre — active more than nine years — becomes unreachable.

The project delivered a complete river transport system: an 8-metre, 3 mm aluminium bajola boat with a 19 HP motor and long-tail rabeta transmission. In practice: emergency medical transport, harvest to market, family and supply movement, and safe access to ceremony. Not goods handed down — autonomy handed back.

The first harvest moves downriver. Video: Conexão Ancestral. Mobility & sustainability support →

Project Two · Mese Kamanawa Village

Água Viva — Clean Water & Solar Power

• 12Families served
• 30–60 mArtesian well depth
• 10,000+ liters of clean water daily
• 100%Off-grid solar

Twelve families moved deeper into the forest near Cruzeiro do Sul to live traditionally, away from highway pressures. Clean drinking water was the cost of that choice — with contamination and waterborne illness falling hardest on children and elders.

Água Viva answers it permanently: a deep artesian well of roughly 30–60 meters, a submersible pump, and an off-grid photovoltaic solar array to run it. No fuel to haul in, no emissions, no recurring cost to the village. Output: more than 10,000 litres of clean drinking water every day — infrastructure the community owns outright.

The solar well is in operation. Vídeo: Conexão Ancestral. Community advocate Wano Kamanawa first raised the need in this message from the village →

A circle that has been turning since 2015

• 2015Katukina.com begins bringing authentic tribal Hapé — then almost unknown outside Amazonian circles — to the wider world, in the simplest recycled containers.
• 2018 · Medicine HouseA sacred space sponsored in Chief Fernando's forest village for preparing Hapé, Sananga and Ayahuasca, and for gathering in ceremony.
• 2019 · First Water WellFresh water for daily village life and for the Medicine House. Chief Fernando shares his vision for the community's future shortly before his passing.
• July 22, 2026 · The boat begins its journeyThe Chief of Vari Viño collects the boat at the BR-364 highway and carries it onward to the river. The Água Viva well enters final implementation.
• July 2026 · Água Viva flowsThe solar well becomes fully operational. Families of Mese Kamanawa draw clean water for the first time.
• July 28, 2026 · The circle widensConexão Ancestral opens the program to the wider Katukina community — and Katukina.US joins from the USA.

“When funds are raised or donated in the name of Indigenous communities, we believe there should be transparency about where those funds ultimately go.”

Katukina Tribe Donation Program

That is why we photograph and film every stage — the drilling rig arriving, the panels going up, the first water flowing, the harvest moving downriver. The full program page holds the complete photo and video record of both projects.

Questions people ask

Sources & media credit: project details, photography and video from the Katukina Tribe Donation Program and Conexão Ancestral field documentation, July 2026. Chief Fernando Katukina's reflections are published in full here. Republished by Katukina.US with permission. In gratitude — Maurice and the entire Katukina team.