Kalpulli/Community Izkalli/House of Light is a grassroots, inter-generational, action and resource center formed in 1996 to transform the health and environment of our community.

We build community power through organizing and direct action, education, advocacy, and services, to address health and environmental issues that affect us on a day-to-day basis. Kalpulli Izkalli is led by families and individuals dedicated to healing our community and environment through the promotion, preservation and protection of cultural and traditional practices which include agriculture, medicine, and ceremony, as well as individual creativity to enhance personal, family, community and general human development. Our model for building a healthy and sustainable community includes a broad and inclusive process necessary in developing grassroots leadership, community power, and movement building. Creating partnerships is the cornerstone of our work in an effort to pool resources into our community in a more collaborative, strategic, and organized process of developing a healthy community.

Our Mission

Our vision is to strengthen the capacity for individuals and families to create positive changes in the way we live by integrating proactive approaches that promote traditional knowledge, values, and ethics of behavior that celebrate the sacredness of the natural world and its interdependence on humanity. Our mantra is, “as we heal ourselves, we heal the earth.”