ABOUT SALUD COMCÁAC
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Initiated in 2020, Salud Comcáac formed to provide an effective response to the emergence of Covid-19 in two remote Seri communities bridging ancient indigenous healing practices together with modern healthcare to prevent and treat Covid and other health problems. A team of herbalist traditional healers and health promoters, medical technicians, nurses and doctors provide integrative healthcare for 1,500 Comcáac residents in the villages of Desemboque and Punta Chueca, promoting health and wellbeing, preventing hospitalizations and avoiding deaths from Covid-19. The scope of this initiative has broadened in order to strengthen community and ecological resilience while addressing underlying vulnerabilities exacerbated by the ongoing pandemic and effects of climate change. In addition to providing community health services, environmental health teams lead initiatives to solve energy, food and water insecurity, and to increase sustainable livelihoods. Ecological restoration teams advance climate change preparedness by enhancing carbon sequestration and protect coastal habitats and sea turtles. These multidisciplinary groups and collaborators include women solar energy technicians, traditional knowledge keepers, engineers, specialists in food and fisheries, ecologists and experts in sea turtle conservation, carbon sequestration and regenerative local economic development. IN THE NEWS:
OUR PARTNERS & SUPPORTERS
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Thank you to all the individual donors who have supported these efforts!
Desert Healers Filomena Barnett, Guadalupe Romero, Betina Romero
Solar Technicians Cecilia Moren, Francisca Barnett, Guillermina Barnett, Veronica Molina
Blue Carbon Team member, Servando Monroy
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PROJECT ADVISORS & CONSULTANTS
La Comunidad Comcaac; Secretaria de Salud Sonora: T.R. Martin Maldonado- Coordinador de Atención a Pueblos Indígenas, Dr. Diego Franco, Dr. Omar Presiado. Sandra Martinez, Fondo Acción Solidaria, A.C.; Alma Cota Yañez, Fundación Empresariado Sonorense A.C.; Cati Denman, Dr. Armando Haro, El Colegio Sonora; Alberto Burquez, Universidad de Sonora; Liliana Madrigal, Amazon Conservation Team; Gary Nabhan, Jill deZapien, Ben Wilder, University of Arizona, Juan Martin, Fondo Salarte Cadiz, Spain.
PROJECTS AREAS
Integrated Healthcare |
Food, Water, & Energy Security |
Blue Carbon Coastal Restoration
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For more information about these projects or to reach the Salud Comcáac team, contact BRN Senior Fellow Laura Monti at, lmonti@borderlandsrestoration.org.