Sãkatani Alliance by Silvae
our vision:
Silvae is an non profit grassroots organisation founded by Jenny Hviding and Artur Moustafa. We work in intersectional partnerships with Indigenous communities to uplift local systems, enhance quality of life through food security, support cultural perseverance and restore biodiversity.
The Sãkatani Alliance is Silvaes first pilot project. It establishes transparent, long-term, intersectional alliances with the forest guardians.
How We Work
Sãkatani implements regenerative practices that nourish both the land and the people. We function strictly as an igniter, providing the scaffolding and organisational structures for local action. Our core focuses include:
Permaculture & Sintropics: Designing resilient, high-yield ecological systems, including housing.
Agroforestry & Reforestation: Restoring native biodiversity and creating lush food forests.
Biogas-Development: Implementing clean, decentralised regenerative energy.
Education, Cultural preservation: Enhancing the Huni Kuin identity, tangible and intangible, through tech classes, photography, video and audiovisual.
Sovereignty & Structure
Responding directly to community requests, our initiative supports Indigenous stewardship while protecting cultural integrity. Establishing Sãkatani as a dedicated foundation was a joint step with the community. It ensures a transparent, accountable, long-term structure capable of holding land and resources on behalf of the people.
We act as a bridge, connecting agroforestry experiences with local impact through income generation, knowledge sharing and hands-on projects.
Our Core Intention
We empower and honour the guardians of the forest to sustain their role as the true protectors of a vital global ecosystem.
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
Artur Moustafa
Co-Founder
Artur 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.
Jenny Hviding
Co-Founder
Jenny Hviding is a freelance artist working across international socio-political and fine art projects, centering her career on nature reconnection and land-based research. She is dedicated to creating intersectional, intercultural platforms where matriarchy, art and ancestral traditions meet— fostering slow-paced efficiency, self-sustainability and local sovereignty.
As the co-founder of Sãkatani, Jenny initiates projects to preserve and regenerate ecosystems and traditions, prioritising local leadership, deep listening and mutual respect. Her extensive leadership experience includes co-founding a cultural center in Barcelona, running the K4 video gallery in Oslo, and launching her traveling culture house, Casa Azul, in 2021.
Deeply shaped by years spent in remote wild areas—including Norway’s forests, the Amazon, the Atlantic Forest, and Northeast Brazil—Jenny has immersed herself in Capoeira, agroforestry, bio-construction and Indigenous cultures, specifically studying with the Huni Kuin. Today, she divides her time between the jungles of Brazil and the forests of Europe. Her multidisciplinary practice spans fine art, storytelling, regenerative energy, sintropics, permaculture and traditional knowledge systems.
She wants to facilitate, 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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OUR GUARDIANS/ GUARDIÕES
Pãtani Keshutani, Aību Kuī:
“I am Pãteani Keshtuani a Aību Kuī, registered in Portuguese as Mara Vanessa Sales Kaxinawá. I belong to the Huni Kuī people. I was born in the Três Fazendas Village, and I currently live in the Paraíso Tūku Nixi Village, in the municipality of Jordão, Acre.
My name carries the history and roots of my people. Because I am a woman, I prefer to use the name Aību Kuī instead of Huni Kuī to assert myself as a woman working alongside my male relatives. I grew up in my community, in the villages of the Jordão River, between the forest and the waters. These ancestral teachings shaped my identity and taught me from an early age that being Indigenous is not just a condition of birth. It is a commitment to the land, the languages, the memory, and the future of our children.
I am one of the first Indigenous women in audiovisual production and photography, as well as a teacher, artisan, leader, and guardian of my Paraíso Tūku Nixi Village. As a photographer, my goal is to showcase our history through images, reaffirming our identity and conveying our struggles. The importance behind my work is to establish an example of autonomy over our truth, our voices, and a community collective of resistance. My hope for the impact of my art is to carry forward my voice, our work, culture, spirituality, festivities, and the very essence of our Indigenous people.”
We at the Sãkatani Alliance honour the importance of Indigenous and female representation. Keshtuani represents the strength of the Aību Kuī women's movement. A young woman, leader, and artist with deep roots tied to the Flor da Mata and Tūku Nixi villages.
communicators
Yasmin Novaes
Yasmin Novaes, a Brazilian artist and Anthropology student, brings over six years of experience in facilitating retreats and producing major events like the Viver o Despertar Festival and the Yuxibu Forest Immersion in the Amazon. Certified in Yoga and Mindfulness, she acts as a bridge to indigenous communities as an communicator for the Sãkatani Alliance project.
This unique combination of professional production, wellness expertise, and authentic Amazonian relationships makes her a valuable asset for cultural immersion initiatives, while her native Portuguese language skills and musical talents enrich our creative programming.
Partners
S3C - Sustainable Community Component Catalogue AB
FiberTech International AB
Contact us
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.
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