ABOUT FEPOI | Federation of Native Indigenous Peoples

ABOUT FEPOI

We are an organization that focuses on supporting the vulnerable population of indigenous peoples in Mexico and around the world.

Our organization is committed to respecting the sociocultural conditions of individuals and creating collective awareness to ensure the execution of programs.

Our mission is to provide quality service that respects ethnicity, language, customs, gender equity, and internal leadership of organizations. In addition, we seek to generate a social symbiosis and synergy to facilitate rural and urban development.

Our vision is to operate with representatives who have the ability to organize, recover language and knowledge, develop indigenous skills, and optimize renewable natural resources to position ourselves as the most advanced organization in the organization and management of resources at the national and international levels.

What Do We Do?

We are dedicated to promoting national and international human rights and generating social development in collaboration with a diversity of societies. With 20 years of experience, the organization collaborates with other agencies and has the trust of the majority of its affiliates, who are mostly groups of indigenous peoples.

We carry out activities related to human rights, productive innovation, handicrafts, agricultural production, economic, environmental, social, cultural, and educational development, among others.

FEPOI promotes the inclusion of the social sectors that need it the most and respects established and/or generated customs, leaderships, trades, activities, and capabilities.

Antecedent

The Federation of Indigenous Peoples is formed and consolidated through training and sharing experiences with other countries, within other non-governmental organizations that have allowed us to be oriented and trained. During meetings with Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank, MUHAMMAD YUNUS, world father of microfinance, and SET Berkeley in health matters, our organization has been interested in knowing the international relations and planning for the most marginalized communities in Mexico. To achieve this, we have been keeping track of different meetings such as the visit of former Ambassador Christopher Landau from the United States. From all the training and participation of indigenous peoples, our World Development Plan has emerged, as well as the exchange of experiences and knowledge between non-governmental societies.

2020

We structured a work plan with the former President of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse, to assist the countries with the highest poverty rates, which unfortunately was interrupted. We have been at the forefront with the internationally generated scientific knowledge that allows us to meet the quality standards for the care and development of our indigenous peoples, always mindful of human rights such as respect for identity, food, health, housing, education, among others.

2021

The organization had the fortune of sharing experiences with government officials in Peru, and concurrently, commitments were established with the indigenous peoples, which consolidated the work plans and commitment in the year 2022 at the event “The Encounter of the Condor and the Eagle,” Experiential Mystic Tourism.

2022

A presentation of the Housing Program’s work in Costa Rica was made at the event “Participation in EIMIAA, Ibero-American Meeting of Women Engineers and Architects,” Towards Transformation, 2022, organized by the Federated College of Engineers and Architects of Costa Rica.

We also participated in the Results International Conference, 2022. We took part in Results workshops, including the conference with Jelanni Cob, 2022, and “Diversity and Inclusion 101: Implicit Bias, Microaggressions, and Systemic Racism and Oppression” in the United States.

Furthermore, we participated in environmental topics, such as the 30th anniversary of ECODES, 2022, and environmental issues in Spain.

We continue to follow events such as Project Drawdown and COP27 to ensure that all activities are aligned with global goals, especially in the areas of environment and food.

2023

We are included to participate in the World Business Forum in November, and we are about to sign a collaboration agreement with UNESCO COMPSE, which will result in us being at the forefront of training and development for our communities.

Members of our Organization in Mexico.

Currently, we have 228,841 members distributed across the 32 states of the Mexican Republic. Additionally, for the dissemination and implementation of our programs, we have voluntary promoters located in different regional offices.