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Current sustainable development projects carried out in Ecuador  Current Activities
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If you represent an organization that is interested in working collaboratively with Yanapuma Foundation we would be pleased to hear from you. There are many ways that we can work together, depending on your aims and how we can cooperate to achieve our mutual goals.
Activities that we are working on or would like to work on include the following:

  • Development projects in the following areas:
    • Health and well-being (including health promotion, nutrition education, hygiene education and practice, reproductive rights and education, children’s and adult’s health, pre-natal care, etc)
    • Education (teaching particular subjects, curriculum development, improvement of school infrastructure, establishing partnerships between schools, etc)
    • Sanitation (Infrastructure development, research, alternative methods, potable water, recycling and waste management, etc)
    • Agriculture (sustainable forms of agriculture, organic methods, alternative cash crops, nutritional crops, analogue forestry, reforestation, soil recuperation, etc)
    • Cultural preservation (territorial rights, mapping, anthropological research, development of cultural centres and  museums, etc)
    • Environmental protection (developing protected areas, analogue forestry, river water quality, recyling, recovering native species, etc)
    • Sustainable forms of income (development of alternatives such as crafts production, medicinal plants, community-run tourism, including micro-finance, training in relevant skills, etc)
  • Spanish School development:
    • Partner with Yanapuma Spanish School as an agency and receive commission on sales
  • Academic partnerships for research and study:
    • Internships for students with credit
    • Research for Master’s and Doctorate level study
    • Study Abroad semesters
    • Service Learning programs
    • Combination Spanish and vocational study (medicine, business, social work, development studies, etc)

Click here for a list of partner organizations and sponsors.