Our Impact
Our Impact 2025
In 2025, Bridgepath invested approximately $3,095 in the Wiwa Women’s Economic Sovereignty Program, combining $2,795 in self-funded micro-grants across three grants with $500 raised from mochila sales that went directly to the general program fund. Your support helps us continue and grow this work
Through Bridgepath, donors helped fund educational and cultural tools identified directly by the community. These included scholarships in web design and digital storytelling, laptops, and a dedicated website and domain for the Organización Wiwa Golkushe Tayrona and Wiwa Art, creating pathways for visibility, income, and self-representation.
Contributions also provided nutritional support for displaced families, Mamos, Sagas, and students, and enabled community leaders and youth to travel to essential gatherings where ancestral knowledge is shared, decisions are made, and cultural continuity is safeguarded.
Pilot Program with the Wiwa Community
In Wiwa communities, women carry forward ancestral weaving and dyeing practices that embody cultural memory, identity, and relationship to the land — practices that also contribute meaningfully to family and community well-being.
Through the Wiwa Women’s Economic Sovereignty Program, launched in 2025, Bridgepath walks alongside women as they restore traditional dyeing and fiber-preservation practices and strengthen self-directed economic pathways rooted in cultural continuity. As part of this accompaniment, the women identified specific needs essential to sustaining their work: access to natural fibers and dyes, appropriate tools, and a dignified way to share and sell their mochilas beyond the territory.
In response to these priorities, the initiative has supported access to maguey fiber and natural dye materials, along with the creation of an online platform and domain identified by the women as a needed space to share their artistry and connect with buyers on their own terms. These efforts support the creation of hand-woven Mochilas—living expressions of identity, memory, and territory—while reinforcing women-led livelihoods and a circular, community-centered economy shaped by the women themselves.
Women and children from the Wiwa Community
Women told their stories.
The women named what they needed most.
150 pounds of maguey and traditional dyeing materials were purchased
Supported the revitalization of traditional dyeing methods using bark and leaves
Each woman received enough materials to make 4 mochilas to sell (some funds from the sale of mochilas will be used to purchase materials creating a circular economy for materials.
Community Investment
In 2025, Bridgepath provided educational scholarship support and operational investment to Juan Carlos Nagogui Gil, the Wiwa community leader who serves as our primary liaison with the Organización Wiwa Golkushe Tayrona. That investment helped Juan Carlos launch Nativo Productions, an Indigenous-led audiovisual company now serving as the production arm of the Ley de Origen - SHEMBUTA documentation project. What began as scholarship support became the infrastructure for the first Indigenous-led documentation of the Ley de Origen.
Our Impact 2024
Bridgepath built a sustained partnership with Fundación Ingibia across 2023 and 2024, contributing approximately $4,175 USD to support their work with the Muisca community and the seed sovereignty movement in Colombia.
In December 2023, Bridgepath granted funds for the development of Fundacion Ingibia's website. In May 2024, a second grant covered digital tools including a drone, a voice recorder, and an iPhone for the foundation's social media and audiovisual documentation work.
For Ingibia's second Kachylas Seed Festival in 2024, Bridgepath granted $1,500 to the festival, raised $1,000 for the restoration of the Chunsua, the Muisca sacred home (casa de hombre), covered the elder weaver's honorarium and materials ($150), provided vests and supplies for the environmental round table ($150), and covered lunches, transportation, and gas for the team (approximately $250).
The Kachylas Festival brought together seed keepers, farmers, and elders to revitalize ancestral agriculture and pass living knowledge to the next generation. We were honored to walk alongside this work.
| Item | Date | Amount (USD) | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Website development grant | Dec 2023 | ~$750 | Grant |
| Digital tools: drone, recorder, iPhone | May 2024 | ~$375 | Grant |
| Kachylas festival grant | 2024 | $1,500 | Grant |
| Chunsua roof (fundraised) | 2024 | $1,000 | Fundraised |
| Elder weaver honorarium and materials | 2024 | $150 | Grant |
| Environmental round table vests and supplies | 2024 | $150 | Grant |
| Lunches, transportation, and gas | 2024 | ~$250 | Grant |
| TOTAL | 2023–2024 | ~$4,175 |
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