The Raíz Foundation supports Siekopai women entrepreneurs from the Siekoya Remolino community in Sucumbíos. The Raíz team in the Amazon worked to implement the women’s entrepreneurship center and to train Liliana Payaguaje, the secretary of the «Keñao» Agricultural Production Association.
The training focused on developing inventories and protocols for the proper management of the center. The project «Promoting Bioenterprises in the Amazon» has supported this association with its legalization processes, construction, and equipping of a women’s entrepreneurship center, as well as with various training workshops.
We express our gratitude to the Small Grants Program of Ecuador from UNDP Ecuador, in coordination with the Program for Supporting the National System of Protected Areas (PASNAP) of the Ministry of Environment, Water, and Ecological Transition of Ecuador, to KFW, and to the German Cooperation Agency GIZ Ecuador.
We also worked on creating a logo that will be digitized by Derek Russell, a volunteer with Raíz and a graduate of RISD, a university in Rhode Island, USA, dedicated to design.
