Earth Prayers Letter - July 2025

Dear friends of the Earth Prayers movement!

Another month has passed, and here in Europe, we are in the height of summer. We are once again taking the opportunity to tell you about this month’s projects and, at the end of this newsletter, to report on the financial support achieved for the projects in June.

We are very grateful for our collective efforts! Week after week, we plant a seed in the world with our combined intentions and financial strength. Many of these seeds have already blossomed and are delighting our hearts. We will also introduce some of these blossomed seeds to you today.

Since there are some new people on the newsletter list, I would like to outline the ways you can get involved with Earth Prayers. The basic idea is to support a project or vision as a community each week of the year with a monthly donation. This is possible by setting up a standing order to our association’s account and specifying “All Projects of the Month” in the reference field. We then distribute your donation evenly among the respective projects of the month. This means that if you donate 10 euros per month, each project receives a little more than 2 euros from you, as the average month is 4.33 weeks long. The amount of your donation is, of course, up to you. Currently, between 150 and 160 people contribute to our work in the world each month in this way. As a result, all projects of the week currently receive financial support of over 500 euros.

The second option can be used if a particular project resonates with you. Each project is promoted on our platforms for a period of one week. This period is also always mentioned in the newsletter. During that specific week, you can support the project by sending us a donation and specifying “Project of the Week - Name of the Project” in the reference field. At a later point, projects that still need support are often supported again. 100 percent of all your donations for our projects are forwarded to the respective project at the beginning of the following month.

What we at Earth Prayers cannot offer is tax-deductible donations. Since we operate so freely and in so many places around the world, the parameters for tax-deductible donations would be restrictive and limiting for our work.

The following are the 7 areas of life that we at Earth Prayers promote year after year:

Free Seeds

Sustainable Agriculture

Nature & Culture

The Empowered Woman (The Empowered Human)

Free Development for Children

Holistic Health

Heart’s Desires

Week after week, our focus rotates from one theme to the next. After 7 weeks, the entire cycle begins anew.

Now, let’s move on to the projects we, as the Earth Prayers family, want to support this month. Each week is dedicated to a specific theme. When we support a project in this theme, we simultaneously nurture the power of transformation within that theme itself, just as we nurture this area of life in our own lives.

🌞 July 7–13, 2025: Holistic Health ~ Ukundua - Center for Mental Health - Wiwa Tribe ~ Colombia ❤️

Gabriel (Ade Sheunduna) and Josefa (Abú Kaumahiumūn) are part of the Wiwa tribe from Riohacha, Colombia. Our dear friend Sonja Kloss recently visited this Wiwa couple and shared their project with us:

“The Ukundua Center is being created as a sacred place for mental and spiritual healing based on the traditional knowledge of the Wiwa people. It will offer conversations, rituals, and experiences—also for couples—including hydrotherapy in natural waters, smudging with healing plants, physical and mental cleansing rituals, and ceremonial healing chants.

Currently, there is one traditional hut. Two more huts are needed for accommodation and activities. This requires 1,000 palm leaves for the roofs. The palm leaves and their transport cost around 500 euros.”

By supporting this, we can help these two individuals share their indigenous Wiwa wisdom for the benefit of visitors and thus contribute to the well-being of humanity. We wholeheartedly support this endeavor!

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the ancient knowledge of physical, mental, and spiritual health from various cultures around the world could fully blossom again and complement each other? Are we also aware of our own indigenous roots? Do we connect with the ancient wisdom of our ancestors regarding the health of body, mind, and soul?

🌞 July 14–20, 2025 ~ Heart’s Desires ~ Simon Jatta: Equipment as an Electrician ~ Gambia ❤️

In November 2024, we already supported Simon with 572 euros to purchase basic equipment for his work as a self-employed electrician. He was deeply touched and delighted by our support. We now want to focus on him a second time so he can acquire additional equipment. We wholeheartedly wish Simon much joy and energy on his continued professional and personal journey!

What are your dreams? What does your heart deeply long for? Do you create spaces to realize your own heart’s desires?

🌞 July 21–27, 2025 ~ Free Seeds ~ Sumak Kawsay - Bees and Reforestation - Ysa Calderón ~ Peru ❤️

We have supported Ysa Calderón and her vision of reforestation and supporting native bees in Peru several times already, most recently in November 2024. Ysa now has a new project aimed at empowering 60 women in the mountains of Lambayeque, Peru, by providing them with knowledge and equipment for planting trees and collaborating on the natural production of healing honey with native bees.

Part of this project also involves microscopically analyzing the pollen of plants preferred by native bees. This will help identify the most important plants and trees for the native bees, which will then be reforested.

We wholeheartedly support Ysa’s initiative by contributing to the purchase of a microscope with 1000x magnification. This professional equipment costs around 2,300 euros in total.

How do we promote the spread of free and regional seeds here at home? How do we nurture our own spiritual seeds? Are we sowing the seeds of our soul in this life?

🌞 July 28–August 3, 2025 ~ Sustainable Agriculture ~ Vuka Daraja na Jirani - Lochuch Ngoo - Porridge for Children and the Elderly, Agriculture, and School ~ Kenya ❤️

William and his wife Ari are always active, advocating for the children and elders of their tribe and region. We continue to support them in their personal goals and their projects for the community.

For the community, they are deeply committed to food sovereignty through agriculture in the Community Garden. For the children and elders, they regularly provide grain porridge. At the same time, they are expanding their own agricultural efforts and need support to provide their own children with a solid education.

We wholeheartedly support the Vuka Daraja na Jirani (Cross the Bridge with Neighbors) association time and again. May their example inspire many people in Kenya and also here in Europe.

Here, we share some pictures with you. Ari has opened a small shop. You can see her wearing our Earth Prayers T-shirt, which she loves to wear. In the second and third pictures, you see a Turkana woman who learned to grow sweet potatoes and plant mango trees from William. In the final pictures, we see William with his daughter and many people working together in the garden—the beans are almost ready for harvest!

Feedback from supported projects:

We now come to a touching feedback from Sugut Marmar, Samburu, Kenya. For context: In Kenya, there is a mandatory school uniform policy. This means many children do not attend school because they lack the money for uniforms. Most children in Kenya have a strong desire to go to school to learn to read and write. If they cannot attend school, it can mean they have to marry very early, remain illiterate, and are unable to participate in many aspects of life.

Just two weeks ago, we received pictures and words from Justinah Zainavu from Suguta Marmar, Samburu. She is a co-founder of the Lmartin People Association, a primary school teacher, and by now a dear friend. I would like to let her speak to you in her own words. Since this text is so touching and unifying, I want to let it resonate in its full length:

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**Report on the Distribution of School Uniforms at Longewan Primary School, Samburu, Kenya:**

With deep gratitude and a joyful heart, we share the story of a transformation made possible by the kind and generous hearts of the Earth Prayers Organization. In the serene village where Longewan Primary School stands, surrounded by green highlands and views of the Great Rift Valley—a place known for frequent tribal conflicts but still rich with children’s dreams—your support has fallen like rain on thirsty soil.

For many of our students, wearing a school uniform has always been a distant hope. Most of them come from pastoralist families where daily survival takes precedence, and purchasing a proper uniform is unaffordable. Many children come to school in torn clothes or stay home out of shame or fear of ridicule. But all that changed on June 19, 2025, a day we will never forget.

Through your kindness, 50 children received school uniforms, which were donated and distributed to the financially poorest students at our school. The action was simple but impactful. As the uniforms were handed out one by one, we witnessed something magical: eyes lit up, backs straightened, and joy could be felt throughout the school—it was not just a piece of clothing, but a gift of belonging, dignity, and hope.

The children couldn’t hide their excitement. The classrooms were suddenly filled with confidence, and I struggled to hold back my tears as I saw these young souls innocently express their purest happiness.

The parents who attended the event were deeply moved. One mother couldn’t hold back her tears as she said, “You have not only clothed my grandchild but also lifted my state of mind.” *Ambia hawa marafiki wazuri Mungu Awabariki* (Tell these good friends that God will bless them).

The teachers also thanked Earth Prayers and the Lmartin People Association for reminding the children that they are seen, valued, and loved. The headmaster said, “You have not only clothed their bodies but also strengthened their dreams.”

What Earth Prayers has done is no small thing. It is the kind of impact that cannot be measured only in numbers but in smiles, confidence, and renewed energy for learning. In a world where many remote communities like ours are overlooked, your organization has chosen to see us, hear us, and walk with us.

From the heart of Longewan, we say *Ashe Oleng*: Thank you very much. May the seeds you have sown continue to grow in ways you cannot imagine. May every child who walks into class wearing a uniform you donated grow a little taller and dream a little bigger.

We look forward to further partnership and friendship as we raise a generation of children who know what lived love looks like.

*Justinah Zainavu*

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We also received heartfelt thanks from Oriana in Venezuela. She is a single mother of two children and wants to return to her self-employment as a confectionery baker. However, she needed an oven, a mixer, and other equipment. Thanks to our support, she now has an oven and a mixer again! She sends us much gratitude and blessings!

Now we also share the figures for the month of June. The following support amounts were provided to the individual projects by the Earth Prayers community! Heartfelt thanks for this! Just as important as our financial support are our wishes of goodwill towards the individual projects and visions!

We wish you all and all people on Earth much peace, purpose, and love!

Philipp Sudi

from the Earth Prayers Team