Nombre del autor:Susy Ayora

Authorities from the Local Education Management Unit (Maynas-Iquitos) of the Ministry of Education of Peru visited the Painkenape school on Saturday, March 19, 2022. This school is located on the banks of the Napo River on the Amazonian border between Ecuador and Peru. This community belongs to the Siekopai indigenous nationality. They delivered books and […]

On Thursday, March 3, 2022, Cristina Latorre, director of CAEMBA, visited the «Curucusí Garden» store located at Mariano Aguilera E7-243 Street in Quito. In this place, where fair trade is promoted, enterprises such as bags, aprons, and cosmetic bags from the Textile Production Association «Casa de la Mujer» in the Atacames canton have a display

Before the inauguration of the new Collection and Processing Center for the «Bioenterprises in the Northern Amazon» project, which took place on February 18, 2022, Chef Cristian Silva from the Association of Amazonian Chefs provided a practical workshop on sanitary protocols and packaging of Black Chili (Nea pia). The technique used was simple pasteurization. This

On Friday, February 18, 2022, we inaugurated the Collection and Processing Center of the «Bioenterprises in the Northern Amazon» project. This bamboo infrastructure was built by the Raíz Ecuador Foundation – CAEMBA in Wa’iya, a Siekopai community in Sucumbíos, Ecuador. The inaugural event was attended by several local and provincial authorities from Sucumbíos. It will

Beyond Lagartococha, a program of the Raíz Ecuador Foundation – CAEMBA, has been supporting access to intercultural education for Siekopai (Secoya) children living in the communities of Painkenape and Mañokó in the Peruvian Amazon since 2016. With the aim of supporting the annual pedagogical update of teachers in schools in both communities, we finance the

During the second week of January 2022, the final tasks were completed prior to the launch of the collection and processing center for the «Amazon Bioenterprise» project. In the community of Wai’ya, Sucumbíos province, this collection center will operate, a space that will be used by the Siekopai Women’s Association ASOPROASIENW. A water system and

As part of the «North Amazon Bioenterprise» project, during the week of December 13th to 17th, 2021, the «Workshop on the Production of Products Based on Native Fish Species of the Amazon; Neapia and Yuca» was held. It was aimed at representatives from communities such as Sinangoe, San Pablo, Limoncocha, Waiya, and Seguaya, among others.

Several national and provincial authorities visited the Wa’iya community on November 17, 2021, where they learned about the field activities of the Raíz Ecuador Foundation – CAEMBA. We built a collection and processing center for Amazonian bioenterprises, constructed with bamboo, in this community of the indigenous Siekopai (Secoya) nationality, in the province of Sucumbíos. The

The Raíz Ecuador – CAEMBA Foundation is constructing a bamboo collection center in the Wa’iya community, belonging to the Siekopai (Secoya) indigenous nationality, in the province of Sucumbíos, in the Ecuadorian Amazon. This place will serve to process the products collected from bioenterprises in several neighboring communities and will be managed by the Siekopai Women’s

On October 7, 2021, this gastronomy course, which began on July 21 at the ‘El Salnés’ restaurant, part of espai epicur, in Quito, concluded. ‘United by Cooking’ (UNICO) was led by Chef Mauricio Acuña, who shared knowledge and flavors with 11 young people from the Siekopai, A’i Cofán – Sinanwe, and Siona nationalities. At the