 In 2001, a shaman apprentice school was founded in Tëpu to preserve indigenous medical knowledge.Since April 2018, the village is powered by solar power, through a project initiated by Amazon Conservation Team Suriname and funded by the Japan-Caribbean Climate Change Partnership (J-CCCP) and UNDP.For this project, two women from Tepu completed a six-month training program as solar engineer at Barefoot College in Tilonia, India.