COVID-19 RESPONSE: KUIKURO VILLAGE, BRAZIL

Pennywise has been working with the Amazon Hope team on a preparedness plan for the Kuikuro of the Xingu region of the Amazon. Together we have mounted a response that includes:

• Support for traveling Kuikuro returning to the village;
• Getting supplies including food, gas, soap, cloth for masks, clear plastic and parts for equipment; and 
• Adapting structures in the village for quarantine
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Nurses and health monitors are currently being trained in the Xingu and all hands are on deck to protect indigenous communities from the devastation that could come from Covid-19.

​Together we can save lives.