Nombre del autor:Susy Ayora

Workshop of the ‘Bioenterprises’ Project On Tuesday, September 21, 2021, members of the Raíz Ecuador Foundation – CAEMBA met with the rest of the teams from the ‘Boosting Bioenterprises in the Northern Amazon’ project, driven by the Small Grants Programme (SGP) with the support of the Program for Supporting the National System of Protected Areas […]

In the last week of August 2021, several authorities visited indigenous communities involved in the ‘Bioenterprises in the Amazon’ project. Representatives from the United Nations Small Grants Programme (SGP), the Ministry of Environment, Water, and Ecological Transition (MAATE), and the German cooperation KFW attended. These organizations jointly finance and coordinate the ‘Bioenterprises in the Northern

In the first week of August 2021, the first of several phases of the total relocation of the Siekopai (Secoya) community of Painkenape was completed. In this phase, the community’s school was moved from its original location on the banks of the Napo River in the Peruvian Amazon, near Nuevo Rocafuerte in Orellana, Ecuador, to

On Wednesday, July 21st, the «United for the Kitchen» (UNICO) course was inaugurated at the «El Salnés» restaurant. Fundación Raíz Ecuador – Caemba is responsible for supporting six scholarship recipients from the Siona and Siekopai indigenous nationalities of Sucumbíos who are currently participating in this gastronomic training as part of the project «Conservation of Biodiversity

The week of July 12th to 15th was very active for Fundación Raíz Ecuador – Caemba and the bioentrepreneurship project with the Siekopai and Siona indigenous nationalities in Sucumbíos. As we mentioned in a previous note, in the first part of the week, several activities were carried out in Siekopai communities in this Amazonian province.

The week of July 12, 2021, Fundación Raíz Ecuador carried out several activities in the Siekopai and Siona territories in the province of Sucumbíos as part of the project «Development of bioenterprises derived from yucca and chontaduro with Siekopai and Siona cultural identity.» This intervention is part of the identification and valuation of products that

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