Presente! Maine
Food & Land Access
Our Despensa Solidaria and Collective Farm offer regular opportunities for community members to grow, enjoy, and be nourished by traditional foods, flowers, herbs, and practices. We create space for landless people to step back into our power and return to the land as our sanctuary.
Health & Wellness
These activities primarily focus on two areas: COVID prevention and support, as well as maternal and child prenatal care and wellbeing. By utilizing a public health approach, we are able to provide critical resources to our community now.
Community Power
Horizontal leadership and community power-building are core values that we’ve embedded in all of our programs. In addition to regularly collaborating with community members to lead events, we also organize with them in the fight for healthcare for all.
increasing access
through communion with land, gathering outside to relearn the ancient wisdom of our ancestors, cultivating and caring for the land we live on
food-as-medicine, growing and distributing nutritious & traditional foods that nourish our bodies, minds, and souls
and public health programs, perinatal care, covid testing and vaccination, quarantine support, health systems advocacy and accompaniment
reclaiming power
through transformative healing practice, turning to traditional herbal remedies, doing shadow work to heal ancient colonial wounds, resting and learning
grassroots organizing, making collective decisions, relying on community leaders, honoring intergenerational contributions, supportive relationships
investing in women of color, empowering matriarchs, strengthening care networks, hiring and fairly compensating WOC from the community
thriving not surviving, self-determination, safety, beauty, joy, peace, rest, art, fun, dignity, fulfillment, transformation
honoring community
centering solidarity and reciprocity
understanding there is no separate survival: solo el pueblo salva el pueblo (only the people can save the people)
relationships based in mutual aid, outside unjust power systems
coming together to celebrate our resilience, joy, and potential as individuals and as a whole
fighting for the liberation of all Native peoples everywhere, our siblings in dispossession
Looking to get involved?
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