Construction began two days after our arrival. Old and young villagers helped on the construction site from morning to evening. An outsider with work experience was brought into the village to help with the construction of the chainsaw, which was bought with the donations, and to train various people from the village. One experience that was quite sobering for us right from the start of the construction was the fact that the villagers had decided to build the roof of the Shubuã out of corrugated iron. We from Erdbewegung had firmly assumed that the roof of the Shubuã would be built in the traditional style out of palm leaves. The villagers explained their decision as follows: Before the Huni Kuin were contacted and enslaved around 90 years ago, they lived a nomadic lifestyle and traditionally built their house roofs with palm leaf roofs. Palm leaves have a short shelf life and have to be replaced regularly. As a nomadic people, this short shelf life was not a big problem, because their regular movement meant they kept coming across new palm leaf stocks. Since their contact with modern civilization, the Huni Kuin have lived in fixed village structures. With regular harvesting, the palm leaf stocks in the immediate vicinity naturally become smaller over time and longer distances have to be covered in order to reach more palm leave stocks, so the workload is immense. This argument was of course very plausible to us. At the same time, the corrugated iron continued to have a very bitter aftertaste for us from an ecological point of view. However, since the corrugated iron had already been procured before our arrival without our knowledge, there was no room for discussion about a possible restructuring of the building plan. It was and is also important to us as an association to be sensitive to the white savior complex. This means working on an equal footing and listening to the local people instead of imposing our opinion. It means not denying the local people the expertise about their own living situation. Of course, it is easy for us as outsiders to say that it is nicer and, above all, more sustainable if the house is built from natural materials. But ultimately, it is not us who have to walk miles into the forest every year to harvest the palm leaves. We are sure that, in addition to palm leaves and corrugated iron, there is a suitable solution for the issue of roof construction that covers both the aspect of sustainability and involves less work. In the few days that we were there and considering the fact that the village community was keen to start construction, it would not have been possible to find a joint solution on an equal footing at that time. So for this project, we made peace with the course of events, took the impulses and ideas with us for further projects and started building the Shubuã with its corrugated iron roof. Since a large annual meeting with the tribal leaders of the other Huni Kuin villages on the Humaitá River was to take place the following weekend, the ambitious goal was to complete the Shubuã in five days. Despite the heavy rainfall caused by the rainy season, work on the construction site continued uninterrupted. On Friday, the floor plan with roof was in place, guests could be received and the Shubuã was inaugurated with ceremonies full of valuable work, dances and music. After Friday, no further work was done on the Shubuã until our departure. The further construction plans include 1.5m high wooden outer walls that go all the way around. This traditional building style creates a little more security inside the Shubuã, but at the same time still lets in enough light and fresh air, as the walls only go about halfway from the floor to the roof. Other details were also planned, such as extending the roof on all sides to prevent the benches from getting wet when it rains, as well as painting the pillars and walls with the traditional kené (geometric patterns). As soon as we receive photos of the finished Shubuã, we will share them with you here.