IYARINA
Napo-Pastaza, Ecuador
CENTER FOR LEARNING ALLIANCE: Fundación Cotococha | Andes and Amazon Field School | Shayarina Amazonian Resilience
Bélgica Dagua, "The Strangler Fig Loved a Girl."
We envision a future in which indigenous communities work productively from their own territories using their own languages and knowledge to engage the global world on their own terms; a future in which the world also learns from indigenous ways of living relationally and recognizes the contributions they make toward sustainability.
Our mission is to build bridges for teaching and learning between indigenous knowledge and science leading to a greater integration of indigenous voices in research and decision making for a more sustainable future. By teaching Kichwa culture and facilitating the co-production of knowledge we create jobs for young people that slow migration and hold our community together.