Funding Area: Environment
We are Survival, the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights.
We’re the only organization that champions tribal peoples around the world. We help them defend their lives, protect their lands and determine their own futures.
Tribal peoples have developed ways of life that are largely self-sufficient and extraordinarily diverse. Many of the world’s staple crops and drugs used in Western medicine originate with them, and have saved millions of lives. Even so, tribal peoples are portrayed as backward and primitive simply because their communal ways are different. Industrialized societies subject them to genocidal violence, slavery and racism so they can steal their lands, resources and labor in the name of ‘progress’ and ‘civilization’.
Our work is preventing the annihilation of tribal peoples. We give them a platform to speak to the world. We investigate atrocities and present evidence to the United Nations and other international forums. We support legal representation. We fund medical and self-help projects. We educate, research, campaign, lobby and protest. And we won’t give up until we all have a world where tribal peoples are respected and their human rights protected.
Our involvement: The Marty Tomberg Charitable Fund has financially supported this organization.
Projects We Support
In the Brazilian Amazon, a tiny group of uncontacted Indians teeters on the brink of extinction. For years Survival has been pressing for their land to be recognized, but now loggers are invading.
The tribe is forced to live on the run, fleeing violence from outsiders. Attacks and disease have killed their relatives.
The loggers are getting closer.
These are the Last of the Kawahiva. And their genocide will be complete unless their land is protected.
You can help us secure it for them: Together, we can give the Kawahiva a future.
Support Dates: May, 2016 – April, 2017
