Healing Bridges

What it reported doing in 2025

II. Strengthening traditional communities. During 2025, Healing Bridges remained focused on Ingi bupa semanba hunbachuha mendevi, the food sovereignty project we began in August 2020 in the Kofan territory of Santa Rosa del Guamuéz. In November, Healing Bridges visited Santa Rosa and surveyed 18 project sites: five aquaculture sites, one proposed reservoir site, one proposed aquaculture site, four chicken coops, four children's gardens, one plantain grove, and two reforestation staging/site. We gathered with three Kofan Traditional Authorities, four Kofan grandmothers, and 16 other followers of traditional medicine and/or family members; in total 11 men and 12 women plus their children, 11 of whom are active Ingi Bupa participants. Healing Bridges also participated in four meetings and ceremonies of traditional medicine, and organized a full-day workshop for Ingi Bupa led by the Colombian Ministry of Agriculture. Healing Bridges provided $14,945 towards the Ingi Bupa project, a hallmark of which is the minga or collective work session (representing cultural recovery), supporting aviculture, aquaculture, and other agriculture. The eleven participating families carried out 29 mingas representing a total of 1,505 hours of voluntary labor (February 8 - December 8.) Of these 29 mingas, 15.5 were dedicated to planting, tending, and/or harvesting cacao, corn, plantain, chiro, and yuca; eight mingas refurbished aquaculture ponds and a reservoir; two repaired a road and created wood piles; two prepared grounds for tree planting; and 1.5 mingas improved chicken coops. Eleven children also participated in an average of 23 of the 29 mingas. All eleven children actively maintained their own chagras or indigenous gardens, often with the help of a dedicated time at regular mingas for children's mingas, in which they helped each other's chagras. Healing Bridges designed a field accounting mobile application prototype, received feedback from some of the Ingi Bupa members, began its coding via a developer, and presented screenshots to Ingi Bupa in November. The app is for generating field accounting information to generate a cost study. In October, the Asociación Ingi bupa semanba hunbachuha mendevi, the Kofan organization which we helped found in 2024, opened a bank account and turned one. During 2025, they held four organizational meetings. In a milestone, the Asociación received two wires from the Colombian Ministry of Agriculture to offset some of the costs incurred in facilitating the workshop. The members of the Asociación also contributed funds to the bank account to establish their patrimony. Healing Bridges supported the Asociación with $1,190 for its operating costs and government obligations. Healing Bridges remunerated $5,516 in indigenous labor, more than $950 of it in honoraria for their work in ceremonies of traditional indigenous medicine. Healing Bridges provided $571 for western medical treatment and associated support for a Kofan grandmother and the widow of a Kofan leader, and for the wake of a Kofan grandmother, Nora Matilde Queta, R.I.P. Healing Bridges received the final investigation report of the United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP) Social and Environmental Compliance Unit about the UNDP's 2021 "strategic alliance" fiasco with the oil company GeoPark.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 47.2%; rating input score 47
• Program expense ratio: 65.9%; rating input score 66

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 28.4%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.16; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 61.8%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 17.2% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings