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1. Full-time community worker for Bua de los Tsachila |
| This position has been funded until December! |
The greatest impediments to the development of the Tsachila in general have been their lack of internal organization, lack of democratic participation, and suspiciousness of outside authorities and organizations, and even of other Tsachila. We aim to help them develop participatory and organizational skills to give them the tools to control their own development
Cost: $9480 per year |
2. Construction of a library in Bua de los Tsachila |
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The school, Abraham Calazacon, in Bua has no library and precious few books. Our aim is to find the funding to help them build and stock a library that can be used by children from all around the area as an educational resource
Cost: $18000 |
3. Renovation of a building for use as a health center, equiping and staffing of health center in Bua de los Tsachila |
| This project has been funded with $12,800! |
A health center was built in Bua but never used. Now in need of repair, our aim is to renovate this building and put it to use as a place for treatment, preventive care and health education.
Cost: $5000 |
4. Pilot study to determine the applicability of ecological toilets and artificial reed beds on the Galapagos Islands. |
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The Galapagos Islands have been declared by UNESCO as a world heritage site that is under threat, and by Ecuador´s president as needing urgent attention to prevent an ecological disaster. Our proposal is to construct ecological toilets to handle the human solid waste and artificial reed beds to treat the gray waters, leading to zero contamination by the human population. The first step is to carry out a pilot study to assess the feasability, identify possible obstacles and a suitable site to run a pilot project.
Cost: $2500 |
| 5. Scholarship program for the children of Estero de Platano |
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One of the greatest barriers to change in this small beach-side community is the lack of educational possibilities once the children reach 13, which is when they have to start college in a town about 40 minutes away by bus. The associated costs are too high for most parents which means that their children´s education comes to an end. Yanapuma has pledged to start a scholarship program for a number of these children to get them through college and expand their options. This will start in March 2009 with the new academic year. Click here for a PowerPoint presentation.
Cost: $200 per child per year |
| 6. Teaching Kichwa through electronic media project |
This project has been funded! |
This project involves creating teaching materials for teaching Kichwa to bilingual schools in the Andean sierra using the internet and podcasts to make it an interactive program. This is a pilot project to produce the first group of lessons with which we can promote the program and obtain permanent funding.
Cost: $1350 |
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