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On June 30, 2021, a delegation from Fundación Raíz Ecuador – Caemba traveled to the Siekopai community of Wai’ya in the Tarapoa parish, Sucumbíos province in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The trip took place within the framework of the project ‘Development of bioenterprises derived from cassava and peach palm with Siekopai and Siona cultural identity.’ The […]

Fundación Raíz Ecuador – Caemba has started its activities in the territory for the project ‘Development of bio-enterprises derived from cassava and peach palm with Siekopai and Siona cultural identity.’ Raíz is part of the Bio-enterprises in the Northern Amazon project, funded through the Small Grants Program (SGP) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),

On Friday, May 28, 2021, the company PACO donated 22 school kits for 22 children from the schools of Painkenape and Mañokó, communities of the Siekopai nationality that are part of our Beyond Lagartococha program in the Amazon. Each kit contains an eraser, a box of paints, a box of crayons, a box of watercolors,

On April 14, 2021, the highest pedagogical authorities of the Regional Directorate of Education of Loreto (DREL), an institution under the Ministry of Education of Peru, visited the Painkenape community of the Siekopai Nation. The community is settled in their ancestral territory on the northern bank of the Napo River in Peruvian territory, very close

The fourth and fifth generations of our project Beyond Lagartococha, part of Fundación Raíz Ecuador – Caemba, traveled to the depths of the Amazon in April 2021, to the border between Peru and Ecuador. The students from both generations traveled between April 2nd and 9th to the Siekopai (Secoya) communities of Painkenape and Mañokó, located

Stella de la Torre, founding member of Fundación Raíz Ecuador – Caemba, led a study confirming the existence of a new species of pygmy marmoset in the Ecuadorian Amazon, where it was previously believed that only one species existed. According to El Universo, the study has been conducted since 2015 by Stella De la Torre,

On Wednesday, March 17, 2021, rapid Covid-19 detection tests were administered to residents of two Chachi communities. One community is San Salvador, and the other is Mono Manso. The management was carried out thanks to the contribution of Fundación Raíz Ecuador and our Caemba project. The Ministry of Public Health (MSP), through the 08D03 Muisne

On February 27th and 28th, 2021, we visited Sucúa, in Morona Santiago, in the central-southern region of the Ecuadorian Amazon. The purpose of our visit was to present the strategic alliance between CAEMBA and the Interprovincial Federation of Shuar Centers (FICSH), with the aim of replicating our work in the southern Amazon of Ecuador. This

On February 19, 2021, Tuntiak Shuar, regional technical coordinator of the Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA), visited our CAEMBA Ecological Bamboo Production Farm, located at kilometer 32 on the Santo Domingo – La Concordia road. Also present were Manuel Pallares, President of CAEMBA; Cristina Latorre, Director of CAEMBA; and Pablo Yépez,

From Fundación Raíz Ecuador and our Caemba project, we congratulate the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon (CONFENIAE) for obtaining the frequency for the radio station «La Voz de la CONFENIAE». This radio station will serve to disseminate educational, cultural, health, and organizational capacity-building content to the majority of indigenous members of the