Remote Amazon Villages
Donation protected
Hello, My name is Amber and I have had the great privilege to live and work with some of the most remote tribes in our Ecuadorian Amazon for the last 9 years. These tribes are living much in the same way as they have for a thousand years. They are hunter-gatherers who rarely venture outside their jungle home. They have no idea that they are responsible for the “lungs of the planet”. Most think the whole world is a rainforest. Though I don’t feel like I have any right to push my beliefs or ideas on these people, I do feel like I have a responsibility to support them when they ask me for help. My WASP forefathers wreaked havoc on this planet and on the many indigenous tribes who first inhabited it. It is my turn to give back, to pay off a karmic debt.
With the help of a few friends and family members, I have managed to help equip and set up libraries, basic first aid centers, and schools in 14 villages so far. I have done all of this thru a system of barter with the natives. They trade me their arts and crafts for supplies they have no access to in the jungle. This project I call books for beads and it is now being headed up by a young indigenous leader. But that is a story for another day. Today, my friends in the Amazon have a medical emergency and I am trying to help them.
Last week, I got a call from the President of an indigenous nation asking for help with a mysterious illness that is killing his people. I saw first hand how it is devastating villages and the families who live in them when I ventured in to collect specimens for testing here in Quito.
I am trying to raise funds for the next couple of trips hopefully all in the next week or so to bring doctors and much needed medicine to these villages that are more than 15 days walk from the closest road. In order to access them, I must charter small planes, which are able to land on the small grass airstrips some of the villages maintain with their machetes. This costs money. As do the medical supplies we will need.
If you are able to help, with any amount, it would be greatly appreciated. I will follow up with photos and information on how the project is proceeding.
With the help of a few friends and family members, I have managed to help equip and set up libraries, basic first aid centers, and schools in 14 villages so far. I have done all of this thru a system of barter with the natives. They trade me their arts and crafts for supplies they have no access to in the jungle. This project I call books for beads and it is now being headed up by a young indigenous leader. But that is a story for another day. Today, my friends in the Amazon have a medical emergency and I am trying to help them.
Last week, I got a call from the President of an indigenous nation asking for help with a mysterious illness that is killing his people. I saw first hand how it is devastating villages and the families who live in them when I ventured in to collect specimens for testing here in Quito.
I am trying to raise funds for the next couple of trips hopefully all in the next week or so to bring doctors and much needed medicine to these villages that are more than 15 days walk from the closest road. In order to access them, I must charter small planes, which are able to land on the small grass airstrips some of the villages maintain with their machetes. This costs money. As do the medical supplies we will need.
If you are able to help, with any amount, it would be greatly appreciated. I will follow up with photos and information on how the project is proceeding.
Organizer
Amber de Freire
Organizer
Los Angeles, CA