Faith Dawson

Faith Dawson has played many key roles in the village of Cosh. She has worked in the dispensary treating the sick, worked in the school program, teaching the children how to read and write in their own language and in Spanish, and has even written several Yanomamö primers and workbooks for the children to use in the school.

She, along with her youngest sister Sharon, run a Children’s Home for the tribal children.They have had numerous children pass through the home: children who were left orphaned and children who were unwanted by their parents and who otherwise would have been sentenced to death. Both Yanomamö and Ye’kuana children have taken refuge within the home.