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Impact

Where the story has already become help.

Named projects, real places, and public records: the trail from what people give to what it became on the ground.

A Shipibo elder holding an embroidered jaguar textile in the Amazon The Community Garden field team with community members in Papua An Amazonian artisan with hand-made ceramics in Peru A Shipibo artisan with hand-embroidered textiles
$150k+documented spending since 2023, in our public IRS filings
$57k+raised for Turkey earthquake relief
$25,519for Haviv’s care: $15,519 from 383 donations, plus $10,000 by bank transfer
14named projects across Peru, Turkey, Papua, and Mexico

Project stories

Named projects, real places, real records.

Every project below names a place, the people involved, and what the support was for.

Haviv in a hospital gown during treatmentHaviv in Peru
Founding story · Peru

Haviv’s medical bills

$25,519$15,519 from 383 GoFundMe donations, plus $10,000 sent by bank transfer

Where the foundation began: a long medical battle in Peru’s Sacred Valley, carried by hundreds of donors and people who showed up in person. Years later, Haviv has made progress but still needs consistent hospital visits and support.

Where
Urubamba, Sacred Valley, with specialist care in Lima
Support
Treatment, travel, housing, food, and family needs
Record
GoFundMe
Relief · Turkey

Earthquake relief

$57,000+raised for the village

After the 2023 earthquake, Dakota Wint and Milo Rossi (MiniMinuteMan) raised the funds through their YouTube channels, and local leaders and our staff on the ground put them to work rebuilding a small village.

Raised by
Dakota Wint and Milo Rossi (MiniMinuteMan) through their YouTube channels
Support
Home repairs, mattresses, stoves, heaters, blankets, and daily essentials
Record
GoFundMe
Education · Peru

Mount Ausangate village school

Profits from Milo Rossi (MiniMinuteMan)’s Peru tour outfitted the entire village school for the winter, with uniforms and warm clothes for every student and a full year of school supplies, and brought necessary supplies to the whole village, one of the most remote communities we work with.

Where
Mount Ausangate, Peruvian Andes
Funded by
Profits from Milo Rossi (MiniMinuteMan)’s Peru tour
Support
Uniforms, winter clothing, and a full year of supplies for every student in the school
Culture & artisans · Peru

Patacancha

An Andean community we serve through cultural and artisan support.

Where
Patacancha, Peruvian Andes
Support
Cultural and artisan support
Art & school · Peru

Escuela Uno

An open-air art space for village children in the Amazon, with classes, materials, and competitions.

Where
Libertad, Amazonia, Peru
Led by
Pete Tran and the One Tattoo initiative
Support
Art classes and materials, uniforms, daily supplies, village art competitions, and prizes
Artist-led

One Tattoo

Tattoo artists donate the proceeds of one tattoo. Escuela Uno is its clearest example so far.

Led by
Pete Tran (“PetesOnEarth”)
Support
Funds Escuela Uno and future grassroots projects
A Shipibo elder holding an embroidered textile
Language · Peru

Shipibo children’s language book

A children’s story about Shipibo culture in English, Spanish, and Shipibo, with everyday words and phrases, so kids meet their language as something alive and useful.

Where
Shipibo communities in Amazonia
With
Dakota Wint, community collaborators, and Amazon partner Jose Saenz, who connected relationships and supported translation and funding
The Community Garden team with community members in Papua
Documentation · Papua

Papua and Papua New Guinea

Documentation of endangered cultural and spiritual traditions, built with the communities who hold them.

Where
Papua and Papua New Guinea
With
Our field documentation team, city leadership in Lae, and ministerial leadership in Papua New Guinea
Dakota Wint shaking hands with Şanlıurfa Mayor Mehmet Kasım Gülpınar at the festival
Dakota Wint with Şanlıurfa Mayor Mehmet Kasım Gülpınar
Kayleigh During, Pete Tran, and Dakota Wint at the festival
Kayleigh During, Pete Tran, and Dakota Wint
Ramazan Aygat at the festival sponsor wall with The Community Garden logo
Ramazan Aygat, with our logo on the sponsor wall
Culture & film · Turkey

Göbekli Tepe International Film Festival

A cultural and art festival in Şanlıurfa, run by Ramazan Aygat, one of The Community Garden’s founders. We support it every year — it sits at the heart of our work in Turkey.

Where
Şanlıurfa, Turkey
Run by
Ramazan Aygat
Our role
Annual support
School supplies handed out to village children near Şanlıurfa
Education & basic needs · Turkey

Şanlıurfa village support

Every year, school supplies, warm winter clothes, toys and learning materials for underprivileged village children around Şanlıurfa.

Where
Villages around Şanlıurfa. Soğmatar is one we return to, but the work isn’t limited to any single place
Led by
Ramazan Aygat with The Community Garden
Support
Backpacks and school materials, winter coats and boots, classroom supplies
Children in class at SpeakingLab Urfa
Education · Turkey

SpeakingLab Urfa

Scholarships at an English school in Şanlıurfa, so underprivileged children can study a second language and the opportunities it opens.

Where
Şanlıurfa, Turkey
Led by
Ramazan Aygat with The Community Garden
Support
Sponsored student places
Ramazan Aygat
Archives & documentation · Turkey

Taş Tepeler archive

Archive work and field documentation around Göbekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe, and the wider Taş Tepeler landscape.

Where
Şanlıurfa, Göbekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe
Led by
Ramazan Aygat with The Community Garden and regional partners
Support
Taş Tepeler archive, field documentation
Margarita Gutiérrez Martínez grinding natural dye on a stone metate in Teotitlán del Valle
Artisans & language · Mexico

Zapotec weaving & language

Zapotec weaving and language work in Teotitlán del Valle, led by our artisan and language leader there.

Where
Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca
Led by
Margarita Gutiérrez Martínez
With
Artisan families and Indigenous artist collaborators
Jazmín “Coyotita” Casimiro
Culture & language · Mexico

Mazatec culture & language

Cultural and language preservation work for Mazatec projects.

Led by
Jazmín “Coyotita” Casimiro

Transparency

You can see where your support goes.

Specific

Every project names a place, a community, and what the support was actually for.

Named

The field leads, artists, guides, and local partners behind the work are named, not hidden.

Public

Our fundraisers and IRS filings are public. The ~$72.5k in relief is itemized in the GoFundMe records above; the rest of the $150k+ went to cultural documentation, books, schools, and field programs.

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