2015& FINANCESANNUAL REPORT

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MESSAGES FROM THE ALIANZA ARKANA FAMILY 2

A TALE OF TWO COMMUNITIES 3

­ Bena Jema 3

­ Santa Clara 5

PROGRAMS & ACHIEVEMENTS: 2015 HIGHLIGHTS 7

­ Regenerative Solutions - 2015 Highlights 7

­ Intercultural Education - 2015 Highlights 7

­ Ecosocial Justice - 2015 Highlights 8

­ Volunteers & Research - 2015 Highlights 8

­ 2015 General Highlights 8

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 2015 10

­ Expenses 10

­ Income 12

ACKNOWLEDGING OUR SUPPORTERS 14

­ Foundations & Grant Givers 14

­ Individual Donors 15

CONTENTS

I would like to thank Alianza Arkana for all the work they are doing in favor of the Shipibo-Konibo people. We have seen close up the interest, respon-sibility and seriousness that they show in each of their projects. All the work that they do shows us the level of commitment, transparency and the good relationships made as friends and colleagues that they create with indigenous organizations and communities. We look forward to working with them in future projects such as the creation of a book on medicinal plants which will be an im-portant contribution to Intercultural Education.

Jeiser Suarez Maynas, President of AIDI(Asociación Indígena del Desarrollo Integral)

MESSAGES FROM THE ALIANZA ARKANA FAMILY

The work I am leading in Santa Clara is im-portant because it is creating a system of produc-tion in the short, medium and long-term for the food security of the children in the community. The project is especially interesting as there is no simi-lar agricultural project in any other Shipibo com-munity and even less one connected to a school. For me, as a Shipibo, it’s a privilege to work here and I like to see foreigners involving themselves in the well-being of the children of this community.

Marcos Urquia Maynas, Director ofPermaculture, Alianza Arkana

If I had to sum up the key theme of our work in 2015 in one word, it would be ‘partnership’. We have consolidated and developed closer working relationships with Shipibo communities, and in-digenous nonprofit and political organizations. Through becoming a non-hierarchical organiza-tion, where formal power and authority do not de-fine working relationships, we are seeing the value of genuine partnership in the way we function as an organization with our staff members, volun-teers and researchers. Furthermore, we are devel-oping innovative forms of funding that are based on reciprocal relationships with the organizations and individual people that financially support us.

Dr Paul Roberts, Intercultural Education Director, Alianza Arkana

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A TALE OF TWO COMMUNITIES: BENA JEMA SANTA CLARA&

Bena JemaBena Jema, which means New Community in the Shipibo lan-guage, was one of the first primarily Shipibo urban settlements with more than 180 families. Like other fringe urban communi-ties, Bena Jema lacks basic sanitation services and has high lev-els of unemployment or underemployment. These realities lead to poor hygienic conditions and many health challenges while community members struggle to obtain the money to meet their basic needs.

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Forming alliances and building partnerships with Shipibo communities is the heart and soul of our work. Here we share a snapshot of the work carried out in 2015 in partnership with some of our closest allies.

Work with teenage girls In January 2015, together with the USA non-profit, Girls for the World, Alianza Arkana ran a five-day personal development residential workshop for young women from this community. This was the third workshop run with young women from dif-ferent communities and the first with girls exclusively from an urban community. The girls told stories of gang membership, abduction and rape, which were very distinct from stories heard previously from girls in more rural communities.

Following the five-day workshop, the participants met with the young Shipibo women facilitators, Rebeca and Katy, to identify themes they wanted to continue to talk about. These included: empowerment, family violence, suicide, drug abuse, gangs, per-sonal health, infidelity, understanding of the media and social media, professional and university preparation, traditional mu-sic and embroidery, and customizing their modern clothes with embroidery. Follow-up workshops continue to be organized to explore these topics and to offer the girls ongoing support.

Since Alianza Arkana’s formation in January 2011, we have worked together with Bena Jema. For four consecutive years, German volunteers have been working with their primary school, first from the Government Organization for Interna-tional Cooperation (GIZ) and, in the last two years, from the German environmental organization Eco-Selva.

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I had the chance to participate in the work-shop with girls from our community, which Alianza Arkana organized with us. I liked the workshop and learned a lot myself. I saw that girls were timid to begin with but they lost this as the workshop went on and I have seen that now they have more confidence. As a commu-nity we have also welcomed the construction of new bathrooms which have helped with the big problems of hygiene and illness that we have in the community.

Luzmila Monteluisa Romaina, Vice-President of the community of Bena Jema

Dry compost toiletsAlianza Arkana also worked with community authorities to se-cure support from UNICEF and local government institutions to build dry organic compost toilets in the community as part of our regional program of eco-sanitation. These eco-toilets are important for reasons of health and hygiene – typically toilets in communities leak sewage onto the ground. With children playing on the ground and the close proximity of houses in Bena Jema together with the poor state of nutrition and general health of the people, many people become ill and contagious diseases are passed quickly from person to person. By the end of 2015, 60 households in Bena Jema had eco-toilets built, covering morethan a third of the population - the majority were built specif-ically for families that live in flood zones. Through continued coordination with Alianza Arkana, Bena Jema hopes to cover the entire population.

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Santa Clara

Santa Clara is a small semi-rural community of about thirty families, about fifty minutes by car in the dry season from Pucallpa. In contrast to Bena Jema, our work began relatively recently here in October 2014, when we began a ‘Grow and Cook’ program that we had pioneered in a nearby community.

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The goal of the program is to grow food-crops in land attachedto the community school - using permaculture principles andinvolving the children in the growing of the food.

Throughout 2015, the permaculture project started to generatefood crops such as cassava and plantain, which helped form thebasis for a nutritious community meal once a week.

A volunteer works with community mothers in the prepara-tion of food, and, through cooking a meal together, teaches the mothers and children about the importance of good nutrition.

Volunteer work in the community

Santa Clara was the first community in which we had a long-term volunteer, Lucy, living and working there for six months. Through her time commitment, Lucy was able to build closer relationships and mutual understanding with the community. Once she understood the needs of the community, she was active in fundraising in order to build eco-toilets for the school, set up a water tank for the permaculture project, and create a library for the school.

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Traditional agricultural methods

The permaculture project in this community is important not only in helping provide a source of nutritious food to the chil-dren at the school but also as a way for the children to learn about traditional agricultural methods by direct experience. They help prepare the land, plant the seeds and plants, and grow the food-crops. This is important in terms of intercultural education as a way in which the children can learn more about their culture and its cosmovison.

Demonstration site

It has always been our dream that by creating a demonstration model of an approach to intercultural education combining permaculture and nutrition, that this approach could be devel-oped more widely in other schools. We were therefore delighted, in November 2015, when the community was chosen to host a special visit of intercultural education teachers. Professor Eli Sanchez, a respected Shipibo linguist and cultural expert who is heading up the initiative of ORAU – the regional indigenous political organization – in intercultural education, led this visit.

As our relationship with this community has developed, we have been able to organise further activities with the help of other volunteers from Alianza Arkana, such as:• Creating a musical playground through recycling materials.• Painting murals based on traditional stories with the children to decorate their school buildings.• Running different environmental education workshops.

Extending this approach

We have learned an enormous amount in our work with these two communities. Our plans are now to extend this work to other communities and work with them to create a program of activities, integrating different projects in the areas of intercul-tural education, eco-sanitation, permaculture and eco-social justice, based on the solid foundations and learning we have gained with our partners and allies from Bena Jema and Santa Clara.

I would like to thank Alianza Arkana for their work with us in the community of Santa Clara. Really the work is very good in helping us create orchards, a hen house and cultivating foods like yuca and bananas, which all provide healthy food for the children in the community.

Donaldo Roque Cumapa, Community leader at Santa Clara

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In association with Girls for the World, a US-based nonprofit, running two five-day personal development workshops forteenage girls and some of their mothers in the Shipibo urban community of BenaJema and the rural community of Santa Rosita de Tamaya Tipishka.

Providing technical assistance to the Municipality of Indiana near Iquitos to train carpentry teams who are construct-ing 152 floating and elevated composting toilets with rainwater capture and bath-ing platforms for 18 communities, also in collaboration with UNICEF.

Building 106 composting toilets with 20 more in construction to finish out the year, using an innovative flood-resis-tant design that combines a double vault composting toilet, rainwater capture and bathing facilities with grey-water garden filtration in three Shipibo communities in collaboration with UNICEF.

Regenerative Solutions - 2015 Highlights

PROGRAMS & ACHIEVEMENTS: 2015 HIGHLIGHTS

Intercultural Education - 2015 Highlights

Painting four educational murals on schools in the Shipibo communities of Santa Clara and Bena Jema and opening of a bilingual (Shipibo and Spanish) library for a new generation of intercultural learners at Santa Clara.

Together with Global Voices and the regional indigenous organization for young people, OJIRU, hosting a two-week ‘Citizen Journalism’ residential workshop for young people from the Shipibo communities of Nueva Betania, Nueva Palestina and Bethel.

Co-running, together with RIPA (TheAmazonian Indigenous Network of Per-maculturalists), a five-day ‘Introductionto Ecological Farming’ course for 30 par-ticipants.

Building an earth kiln, with the support of our natural buildings expert volunteer, Fin, for our Shipibo partners IDEARA, on the site of the land they intend to create an Amazonian institute for the regenera-tion of their culture.

Continuing to offer university scholar-ships to six talented Shipibo students to become intercultural teachers and agriculturalists.

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With the Chaikuni Institute, producing a detailed report about the activities of the oil company PlusPetrol in the new oil block 192 in the northern part of the Loreto region.

Running a workshop on indigenous rights in relation to the activity of oil and gas companies in the Shipibo community of Poayhan.

Ecosocial Justice - 2015 Highlights

Establishing an online shop, www.koshinomabo.org, linked to our website that sells high quality Shipibo craftwork and paintings to support the women who made these and provide funding for our projects.

2015 General Highlights

Making significant advances to turning our office/volunteer accommodation space into an urban permaculture site and renovating the cement building that is part of our site so it can host the cultur-al centre and archive we want to set up.

Setting up a learning community for our supporters and running three ten-day on-line courses on ’Leadership in the Internet Age’, ‘Conversation and Change’, ‘The Systems View of Life’ and ‘Eco-sani-tation and the Nutrient Cycle.’

Creating a fresh logo and beautiful new website. Many thanks to Sean Beresford, the designer of our logo, and to our web designers, MoonPulp, who did such creative and responsive work for us.

Working with 19 different international volunteers and researchers over the year, each of whom made a unique contribu-tion to our work. They included nine North Americans, three people from the UK, two from France, four from Germany and one from Holland.

Volunteers & Research - 2015 Highlights

I love, admire and I am so inspired by Alianza Arkana’s vision. I realise more and more how lucky I was to be part of such a team. It is an organisation where not only beautiful and important projects take place but also a place for personal growing and where connection and re-lationships by their very essence are experienced.

Soraya Bozzetto, Communica-tions Coordinator Volunteer

Creating the Research Report ‘Learning from the Peruvian Amazon, about how Shipibo healers learn their craft, com-missioned by Roffey Park Management Institute, England.

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“Our ancestors taught us Shipibo art and we have to continue to value our culture up through today”. Isabel Silvano Sandoval, Shipibo artist

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FINANCIAL STATEMENT 2015

Administration& OperationsS/. 53,378.81

13.07%$ 17,792.94

2015 Expenses overview

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January 23,314.88 5,204.91 28,519.74 9,506.60

February 30,112.42 10,127.95 40,240.37 13,413.46

March 43,362.80 11,607.32 54,970.12 18,323.37

April 24,364.53 5,535.84 29,900.37 9,966.79

May 32,451.80 4,044.16 36,495.96 12,165.32

June 7,746.62 2,906.34 10,652.96 3,550.99

July 26,126.52 1,423.55 27,550.07 9,183.36

August 17,429.61 1,434.17 18,863.78 6,287.93

September 7,093.58 6,777.60 13,871.18 4,623.73

October 55,351.42 1,259.90 56,611.32 18,870.44

November 53,309.41 1,640.07 54,949.48 18,316.49

December 34,339.44 1,417.00 35,756.44 11,918.81

Total 2015 (PEN) 355,003.03 53,378.81 408,381.84 -

Total 2015 (USD) 118,334.34 17,792.94 - 136,127.28

% OF TOTAL EXPENSES 86.93 13.07 100 100

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Yearly Program Expenses

Programs Total PEN Total USD

% of Total Programs Expenses

REGENERATIVE SOLUTIONS 248,670.67 82,890.22 70.05%

• Keras Yama - Zero Waste Program 178,802.38 59,600.79 50.37%

• Bena Nii - New Forest Program 69,868.29 23,289.43 19.68%

INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION 32,515.87 10,838.62 9.16%

ENVIRONMENTAL & SOCIAL JUSTICE 73,816.49 24,605.50 20.79%

TOTAL PROGRAM EXPENSES 2015 355,003.03 160,926.75 100%Intercultural Education

Environmental & Social Justice

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S/. 73,816.49 9.16%

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$ 10,838.62

$ 24,605.50

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$ 160,926.75

$ 82,890.22

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Total Program ExpensesKeras Yama Bena Nii

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January 8,991.07 13,380.81 943.00 - 23,314.88

February 8,148.43 15,800.59 6,163.40 - 30,112.42

March 22,125.41 15,983.73 3,185.50 2,068.16 43,362.80

April 8,809.32 10,993.94 2,264.07 2,297.20 24,364.53

May 2,892.50 5,219.00 1,760.00 22,580.30 32,451.80

June 2,711.67 534.75 4,485.20 15.00 7,746.62

July 1,372.69 2,607.90 2,130.90 20,015.03 26,126.52

August 2,819.79 958.82 2,651.00 11,000.00 17,429.61

September 3,202.98 187.30 2,697.50 1,005.8 7,093.58

October 41,399.82 174.80 2,576.80 11,200.00 55,351.42

November 46,217.56 2,851.85 2,140.00 2,100.00 53,309.41

December 27,711.14 1,174.80 1,518.50 3,935.00 34,339.44

Total 2015 (PEN) 176,402.38 69,868.29 32,515.87 76,216.49 355,003.03

Total 2015 (USD) 58,800.79 23,289.43 10,838.62 25,405.50 118,334.34

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Net Income 408, 381.84 136,127.28

Net Assets on January 1 65,599.38 21,866.46

Net Assets on December 31 6,228.45 2,076.15

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Foundations & Grants 68.8

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$ 21,866.46

$ 2,076.15

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$ 136,127.28

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THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS IN 2015

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