GRANTS & TRAINING

Amazon Partnerships collaborates with indigenous Kichwa communities that want to create their own projects to protect the rainforest and promote the conservation values of their culture.

Unlike other organizations, we do not bring projects to communities; communities propose projects to us. We support them with small grants and intensive training in project management so they can learn to sustain their results over the long term.

Projects can range from agro-forestry to production of traditional handicrafts to environmental education to ecological sanitation, among others.

Our current projects include:

• Rainwater catchment systems that provide safe drinking water without impacting wetlands and streams
• Reforestation with native hardwoods and fruit trees to maintain biodiversity on traditional small-scale, "mixed-species" farms
• Organic cacao cultivation workshops and tree nursery construction

Find out how these projects positively impact indigenous Kichwa communities, promote Amazon conservation, and confront climate change.