AYELE Projects - About us
We combine filmmaking and social empowerment.
A female-led Initative of storytellers, communities and visionaries.
AYELE is a women-led alliance that emerged in response to the urgent need to support communities
Communities that are facing multiple forms of exclusion, structural violence, and eco-social crisis. More than a communication project, AYELE is a living network of care, education, listening, and collective action, working from within territories and alongside the people who inhabit them.
Our approach integrates art, cinema, community communication, mental health, collective healing, practical education, and environmental care as inseparable dimensions of individual and collective well-being. We begin from the understanding that there can be no climate justice without social justice, and no social justice without mental health, access to basic resources, and narrative autonomy.
AYELE amplifies the voices of women, Indigenous peoples, Afro-descendant communities, Black and queer people, and other historically marginalized populations. We do not work from an external or extractive perspective: our processes are co-created from within communities, grounded in relationships of trust, reciprocity, and long-term commitment.
How We Work?
Our work is grounded in participatory, transdisciplinary, and place-based methodologies. We reject extractive and assistentialist models, understanding each process as a reciprocal exchange of knowledge where ancestral wisdom, lived experience, and contemporary practices meet on equal terms.
In AYELE, art and communication are not ends in themselves, but tools to restore dignity, strengthen belonging, and catalyze collective action. Every audiovisual piece, workshop, or gathering is conceived as a space of care, memory, and transformation.
Why?
Many of the communities we work with face the long-term consequences of colonization, territorial dispossession, environmental contamination, economic precarity, and systemic inequality. These conditions directly affect physical, emotional, and cultural well-being.
AYELE exists because we believe solutions cannot be imposed from outside. They must be creative, ecological, and deeply rooted in community collaboration. We are committed to building networks of solidarity that extend beyond the duration of a single project, strengthening collective capacity to sustain life and well-being over time.
AYELE Vision
We understand the world as an interconnected fabric, where every thread—human and more-than-human—affects the balance of the whole. Our work does not seek to “fix” communities, but to weave relationships, repair connections, and create the conditions for collective flourishing.
AYELE is a space of listening and remembrance, where silenced stories reclaim their voice, where care becomes a political and ethical practice, and where shared visions for a more just, compassionate, and eco-social future begin to take shape.
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Our mission is a sacred offering to humanity and to the Earth
We are committed to listening with humility, and carry forward the stories of those who walked before us. Our mission is to honor and uplift the voices oppressed by our society.
As an act of revolution in presence. Weaving the fabric of a future grounded in solidarity.
Our strength lies in the roots that hold us together
Team work & Partnerships
Our team and collaborators bring together vision, and dedication from around the world.
Working alongside partners like GARN, Conservation International, REFA and INEXO Verde, we combine knowledge from diverse fields; environmental science, Indigenous leadership, and cultural preservation. Together, we foster networks of care and shared action for a sustainable future.
We are a women-led alliance that believes deep social transformation is possible in common-unity, based on respect and mutual care.
Our essence and spirituality is not dogmatic but ecological
Speaking from a relational field
of remembering together.
AYELE is founded upon a relational worldview in which all things are connected: humans, rivers, mountains, memories, and stories.
AYELE is rooted in three intertwined dimensions:
- Cultural: Raising voices, wisdom, and artistic expressions of the most vulnerable populations.
- Ecological: Restoring the sacred relationship between humankind / humanity and the Earth.
- Spiritual and emotional: Proposing pathways for healing the wounds of colonialism, modern disconnection, and the climate crisis.
We need you to co-create lasting impact
If you have a proposal that seeks to generate collective, reciprocal, and sustainable impact, we invite you to collaborate with us.
WE INVITE YOU TO WALK WITH US
We believe transformation is not built alone, but together, in community.
If you feel called to support, there is a place for you here.
Join us in co-creating spaces where memory is protected and collective healing becomes possible.
This is an invitation to belong.
To care.
To imagine and build, together,
As one.