Sãkatani Alliance is a non profit, funded in 2025, by Artur Moustafa and Jenny Hviding. We work tightly with communities in the Brazilian Amazon; where their leaders and our team, through full transparency, signatures, indigenous sovereignty and intersectional conversations; collaborate on projects to strengthen their villages.
Sãkatani Alliance cooperates with regenerative practices such as permaculture, sintropics, agroforestry, reforestation and biogas-development—techniques that nourish both the land and the people.
Our goal is to build 100% self sufficient systems, through construction of cultural institutes and food forests, where the indigenous have full sovereignty. Sãkatani functions simply as the igniter on the how, offering structures for that to take action.
We invite scholars, artists, scientists, and experts in agriculture and socio-economic development to collaborate with us and the communities in a respectful, co-creative manner— always ensuring that Indigenous voices lead the way and are heard.
The Sãkatani Alliance emerged in part from Artur Moustafa’s long-standing, trust-based engagement with the Huni Kuin people, and from a shared recognition with the community of the urgent need to secure land and food sovereignty in regions facing increasing pressure from deforestation and land scarcity. A second, equally essential element that sparked the founding was Artur’s meeting with Jenny Hviding, who shared the vision and long-term commitment required to commence the work.
While the initiative responds directly to requests from the community and is designed to support Indigenous stewardship without undermining cultural integrity or ecological balance, the decision to establish Sãkatani as a dedicated foundation was a joint step. It was grounded in a common desire to create a transparent, accountable, and long-term structure capable of holding land, resources, and responsibility on behalf of the communities involved.
We are a bridge—connecting future agroforestry experiences with meaningful impact through income generation, knowledge sharing, and hands-on volunteering. At the same time, we help preserve cultural heritage and support the community’s journey toward self-sufficiency and environmental harmony through our continuous conversation and collaboration with the Huni Kuins.
We want to inspire, empower, and honour the guardians of the forest, so they can continue being exactly that: the true protectors of one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet.
Our intention is simple:
to let the forest speak—and be heard—through its people.
To return land, dignity, and voice to the jungle's rightful keepers.
our team and vision:
Our Team
Artur Moustafa
FounderArtur has been engaged for more than a decade in long-term, trust-based collaboration with Indigenous Huni Kuin communities in Acre, Brazil. His involvement is rooted in listening, presence, and a shared commitment to supporting Indigenous autonomy, land stewardship, food security, self-sufficiency and regenerative ways of living.
Artur’s work sits at the intersection of regenerative systems design, sustainable food and building systems, and participatory processes that place local communities at the center of decision-making. He has spent over 20 years working with projects focused on resilience, self-sufficiency, grass root level based design methodologies and ecological regeneration across Latin America, Europe and the Nordic region specifically where he lives.
Artur has worked with the development of regenerative production systems, community-based decision models and low-impact construction approaches using local materials. His approach is practical and systems-oriented, with a strong emphasis on creating solutions that can be owned, maintained, and adapted locally over time.
Artur’s role within Sãkatani is to help bridge Indigenous leadership, local partners, and international supporters, ensuring that projects are built on consent, transparency, and long-term accountability. His work is guided by a belief that regeneration is not something done to communities, but something built with them, over time, through trust and shared responsibility.
Communicadora/CommunicatorYasmin Novaes is a brazilian singer and songwriter, trained in Integral Yoga and Mindfulness, researcher of ancestral knowledge, producer of self-knowledge events and cultural encounters with indigenous peoples and Anthropology student.
For over 6 years, she has facilitated and produced retreats, workshops, festivals, and in-person and online self-discovery courses. She worked as a co-founder, producer, and facilitator in the Despertar na Prática (Awakening in Practice) project and conceived the Viver o Despertar (Living the Awakening) Festival in Brasil.
In 2023, she began releasing her own music on digital platforms, and in 2024 she began collaborating with indigenous peoples, also working as a contributor on musical albums of songs from the Huni Kuin people.
She produced the Yuxibu Forest Immersion for the Huni Kuin people in the Amazon Rainforest (Jordão - Acre) and also several ceremonies with traditional knowledge and forest medicines, conducted by indigenous peoples in Rio de Janeiro. In 2026, she gave her first international musical performance in Chile at the Maputinkuy Festival of ancestral knowledge. Currently, she is studying Anthropology at UNIASSELVI college and working as an ambassador and collaborator for the Sãkatani Alliance.
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Jenny Hviding
Co-FounderJenny Hviding works as an freelance artist within various international socio-political and fine art projects. She has built her career around reconnection to nature and land based research.
Hviding is adamant about creating intersectional conversations and intercultural platforms, where matriarchy, art, nature and ancestral traditions can be met; inspiring and co-creating spaces that can flourish with a slow paste efficiency with strong self sustainability and sovereignty to the people already living there.
Jenny`s intention with co-founding Sãkatani, is by initiating projects that can help protect as much nature and traditions as possible, in a humble and respectful way, with the locals leading.
Jenny has professional experience within project management, leadership within start-ups, co-funding and creating cultural spaces from scratch. She has co-created and run a cultural center in Barcelona, as well as a video gallery K4, in Oslo, during her Bachelor. She started her own travelling culture house Casa Azul in 2021, where she does various collaborations and workshops.
In her early 20`s Jenny connected with Brazil through the jungle, Capoeira, agroforestry and bio construction; meeting various Indigenous ethnicities like Noke Koi, Yawanawá and Huni Kuin and got deeply involved in learning about their culture. She spent many years living in isolated places, like the Amazon rainforest, the Atlantic Forest and within the Tropical moist broadleaf forest biome of the North-East Region in Brazil.
During her time in rural and remote areas, she acquired deep knowledge with the locals and the indigenous and their ways of living- eventually specialising in learning with the Huni Kuin`s, tropical and northern medicinal plants, and regenerative energy.
Hviding spends her years in between the jungles of Brazil and forests of Europe, making art, documenting stories, learning about sintropics, agroforestry, permaculture and ecology.
She wants to uplift and aid structures, so that the guardians of the forest can shine, bloom, prosper and live in the forests, with dignity and possibilities. In harmony with nature and within their communities. In safe territories that can live for generations.
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