Amazon Pueblo
Promoting sustainability through the education of indigenous youth of the Amazon.
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
The indigenous children of the Colombian Amazon have many obstacles to their education to overcome. The majority of families cannot adequately support their children financially to be able to attend public school. This, in turn, reduces the students' opportunities to find employment or to develop good business opportunities.
If the children can learn to read, write, do mathematics, and to reason well, they will be able to pull themselves out of poverty.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Student Scholarship and Support Program
The Amazon Pueblo project is dedicated to helping indigenous youth of the Colombian Amazon jungle to live sustainably through education and the development of socially conscious business.
We work with communities around and upriver from the jungle city of Leticia, Colombia.
Student Scholarship Program
A program to support the education of indigenous youth of the Colombian Amazon.
Where we work
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Goals & Strategy
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Goals:
1) To support the education of indigenous students of the Colombian Amazon.
2) To help students to learn about sustainable business.
3) To help the students to find employment and to develop sustainable businesses.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Goal 1. We art providing financial assistance (and transportation/buying oversite) to the students of La Libertad, Colombia, Tabatinga, Brazil, and Caballococha, Peru which will allow them to buy uniforms, shoes, school supplies, and personal hygiene items for one year. The students have the option of remaining in the program for additional years if they perform well in school.
Goal 2. We have periodic small workshops to teach age-appropriate activities to teach sustainable business practices.
Goal 3. We offer advice, logistical support, and small amounts of money to help develop small business in the communities we serve.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We connect sponsors in the United States and other developed countries to students in the Amazon. We also build and help the communities to make connections with other NGOs and government organization to provide support.
Our assistance comes from a group of volunteers that administer the organization, fundraise, and directly visit the Colombian Amazon to continue our work.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
We currently support 19 students in the Colombian Amazon. We have double our number of students following our program restructure of 2017. We have also built a pier and cement step for the community, built a yuca processing plant, built a guest house and one-room schoolhouse, and help the community to make contacts with other development organizations.
We hope to expand the number of students we serve by at least 10% yearly. We also plan to develop cacao, plantain, and yuca cultivation as a sustainable business.
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Amazon Pueblo
Board of directorsas of 07/08/2019
Benjamin Angulo
Mark Brooks
Brooks International
Julie Brooks
Brooks International
Patrick Mellor
Strout and Payson
Sarah Blackman
D Addario Strings
Dianne Rizzo
Seton School
Lisa Weaver
Seton School
Crystal Angulo
Westerly School