Guajajara tribe COVID situation

The pandemic has spread into the forests of Maranhão, Brazil, and the Guajajara indigenous community needs your help.  Travel into and out of their community has been banned, with the exception of food delivery trucks which are in fact not reaching them.  The tribe's chief, Bernardino de Souza Polinário Guajajara, contacted me in despair this morning. 

There are 100 families, 70 children amongst them, who are at risk of starvation and in need of help.  I contacted J. Rezende Market in the town of Arame two hours away, and the market's owner is willing to supply and transport meal kits to the Guajajara. 

A month's basic meal kit will cost R$243 (~$50 / ~ £40) per family, plus a total of R$800 (~$160 / ~£125) for transport + (2.9% + 0.30 cents for each donation to Go Fund me). We need to raise a total of R$ 25. 870 for the Guadajara community to have basic food supplies for a month.

I am Daniel, and met the Guajajaras in November 2019 during one of my work deployments to the region.  I spent a week with them and was able to experience their lives up close.  Bernardino, the tribe's leader, contacted me as a last resort - he has exhausted his resources and does not have anyone else to appeal to.
Let's raise these funds as quickly as possible.  Every minute counts when people are going hungry.  Let's make a difference.


Cacique Bernardino de Souza Polinário Guajajara speaks.




Dazim market in the town of Arame, Dazim is the largest market in town


Birds eye view of the town:



Birds eye view of the Arariboia land.