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Azimuth World Foundation Supporting Indigenous self-determination through grassroots partnerships, strategic advocacy, and following Indigenous voices & priorities.

We stand in partnership with Indigenous communities, supporting their self-determination through funding initiatives they design and lead. We complement this direct support with strategic advocacy and build lasting networks that honor and amplify Indigenous voices, wisdom, and priorities. Our approach grows from recognizing the profound interconnections between environmental, social, humanitarian and cultural justice, guided by Indigenous ways of knowing that have sustained life for millennia. We move forward with humility, learning and unlearning as we support community-led transformation. Azimuth World Foundation was established by Terry Rockstad and Mariana Marques with a profound vision: that all life on Earth exists in an intricate web of relationships. This understanding drives their commitment to advancing human rights through three essential pillars: Health & Healing, Water Access, Environment & Territories. At the intersection of these pillars lies a transformative approach that recognizes the deep connections between social, humanitarian, and environmental challenges. This perspective reflects the wisdom that Indigenous Peoples have long embodied – an understanding that we are not separate from nature, but are nature itself, inextricably woven into the fabric of all life.

10/06/2026

In Majimoto village, Endorois women elders and youth sing together during a re-seeding initiative that is recovering degraded land. The elders lead, and their songs say: "We have given you the key, what has remained is to open the door” and “We urge the youths of Majimoto to protect their land."

In Baringo County, Kenya, our partners at Endorois Indigenous Women Empowerment Network - EIWEN. have been bringing generations together to restore biodiversity on Endorois land, planting native grass on degraded sites. As seeds go into the ground, Endorois women of different generations discuss how their pastures should be governed. Every update we receive shows us that the ecological work cannot be separated from the social bonds it strengthens.

Azimuth World Foundation has been a proud partner to EIWEN's Sustainable Beekeeping and Biodiversity Restoration initiative. Every year of this partnership we learn how healing the land and keeping culture alive are intertwined. How the will to restore the land ripples through the community, uniting and reuniting generations in respect for their heritage and hope for the future.

09/28/2026
Our team is currently gathering in North Dakota, where Azimuth World Foundation is based, to envision the year ahead. Ye...
09/10/2026

Our team is currently gathering in North Dakota, where Azimuth World Foundation is based, to envision the year ahead. Yesterday we visited WOZU - Planting Seeds of Change in Standing Rock, and left truly inspired by what we saw. Here, land regeneration, cultural regeneration and social regeneration are all intertwined in such powerful ways. Healing the land and healing the community are one and the same process. Buffalo herds roam in restored grasslands, outdoors activities developed for community youth revive cultural practices and protocols, regenerative agriculture is rebuilding food sovereignty. Thank you, Dave Archambault II, for the tour and for such a generous sharing of knowledge. And thank you to our Advisory Commitee member Billi Jo Beheler for organizing this visit with Wozu.

09/01/2026

Christine Kandie Lebelit Azimuth World Foundation Minority Rights Group Siemenpuu PARAN_Kenya Agroecology Fund Global Greengrants Fund Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples ESCR-Net

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