Support Our Initiatives
Every gift goes to work in a specific place: an ancestral school in the Amazon, another taking shape in the Andes, the reserve that holds the land between them, and the circles that bring elders and children together. Choose where yours goes, or sustain all of it at once.
Emergency Relief for Nepal
The recent disaster in Nepal has severely affected communities in the Rasuwa region, leaving many families urgently in need of food, blankets, cooking supplies and emergency solar power. We are organizing this campaign in direct coordination with Lama Karma Tsultrim Sangpo and the Manang Society Monastery, through long-standing relationships within our Kagyu lineage.
Rasuwa is the district of the Langtang Himal, the region our Himalayan Pilgrimage travels through with the Karuna Project in October 2026.
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Four initiatives, one living vision
Three campaigns are open now on Zeffy, and their forms are just below: one for each ancestral school, and Sustain Paititi, which funds the reserve’s guardianship and the rest of the work that holds the initiatives together. The circles uniting elders and children are preparing a campaign of their own; until it opens, Sustain Paititi carries them too.
Yahua Ancestral School
The first maloca stands complete. Your gift builds the campus around it: dieta huts, compostable bathrooms, solar-powered water, a culturally rooted curriculum, and wisdom keepers brought from deeper Yahua communities.
Give to the Yahua school ↓
Q’ero Ancestral School
The same model is extending to the Q’ero Nation in the high Andes: a dedicated space for elder-to-youth transmission, the Quechua language and ceremonial knowledge, and land-based education rooted in Andean ecology.
Give to the Q’ero school ↓
Paititi Biocultural Reserve
1,516 hectares where the high Andes give way to cloud forest, held as a buffer to the Manu National Park Reserve, with the title affirmed in 2026. Its guardianship is funded through the Sustain Paititi campaign.
Give to the reserve ↓
Uniting the Elders and Children of the World
Workshops that bring elders and children into the same circle, from the Amazon and the Andes to Mexico and the United States. Its own campaign comes next.
Read about the initiative →Support the Growth of the Yahua Ancestral School and Living Wisdom Center
In the heart of the Peruvian Amazon, the first Yahua Ancestral School maloca now stands complete, brought into being entirely through the proceeds from Beyond Ayahuasca. Your gift builds the campus around it: five dieta huts where youth can experience rites of passage guided by their elders, compostable bathrooms, solar-powered water systems, a curriculum that carries ancestral stories and the teachings of the living forest, and wisdom keepers brought from deeper Yahua communities.
Read the full appeal on the initiative page →
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An Ancestral School for the Q’ero Nation
What began in the Amazon with the Yahua Ancestral School is now extending to the Andes. Your gift helps develop an ancestral school for the Q’ero Nation: a dedicated physical space for elder-to-youth transmission, preservation of the Quechua language and ceremonial knowledge, land-based education rooted in Andean ecology, intergenerational workshops for children and families, and infrastructure that supports community stability beyond tourism-based income. The school is dedicated to the memory of Q’ero elder Pampamesayoq Juan Gabriel Apaza Lunasco.
Read about the Q’ero initiative →
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Sustain Paititi Institute: Land, Culture & Living Wisdom
Support the living foundation of Paititi Institute: the guardianship of our 1,516-hectare Biocultural Reserve, our personnel and field operations, intercultural partnerships, documentation of ancestral wisdom, regenerative ecological initiatives, and the practical work required to carry this vision.
Our work is not organized as a series of isolated projects. It is one living system in which the health of the land, the continuity of ancestral cultures, the well-being of communities, and the maturation of human consciousness are deeply interdependent. This campaign provides general operating support for the essential work that holds this system together and allows Paititi Institute to respond where resources are most needed.
Whether you make a one-time contribution or become a monthly supporter, your gift helps sustain the roots from which every Paititi initiative grows.
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How your gift travels
Zeffy charges no platform fees, so your offering moves directly into the initiative you choose. Paititi Institute is registered in Peru and fiscally sponsored in the United States by Empowerment WORKS, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, so donations through Zeffy are tax-deductible in the United States.
There are other ways to walk with us. 100% of Roman Hanis’ author royalties from Beyond Ayahuasca support Paititi Institute’s Indigenous education and cultural preservation initiatives, and for twenty years, proceeds from our retreats have funded every nonprofit initiative at Paititi.
For questions about a specific initiative, or about ways to give beyond Zeffy, write to us and we will answer personally.