Lydia Peters is the Founder and Executive Director of The Indigenous Miskitu Circle Corp. and is Indigenous Miskitu. Originally born on the east coast of Nicaragua, and raised by her grandmother in Indigenous culture, she has a connection with nature and soon realized the special calling in her life to make a positive change in the world. Her real experience came as a mother. Her passion to help children, and the future generation to come, empowering the indigenous people , and to strengthen Indigenous cultures. This is the driving force of why she formed this Foundation. “I was raised to respect mother earth, land, the trees, and each other. That is our community culture. Our organization focuses on health, education, social and the environment because that is the way to help people.”