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Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page. Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving – they’ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they’ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it’s the most efficient way to donate - I raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity. So please dig deep and donate now.   Ok, so what am I up to and why do I want your money? As you know, I am working in Ecuador, in the province of Napo. Ecuador is one of the countries with the highest biodiversity on Earth (research Yasuni, for example). The Ecuadorian Amazon is subject to all sort of environmental threats. Oil companies, roads, electricity lines, are spreading fast, and most of the time not in the most environmentally friendly way you can imagine. What can we do? We want to start with education. Educating ourselves about the reality here, educating others about the reality out there but most importantly educating the people who live in this area and are responsible for this land.  What can you do? You can help me do this :-) We are doing a never 5 day trek never attempted before to raise money for educational materials and resources for schools and local communities in and around where I have been working for the last year and a half. The Challenge: Trekking and kayaking from GVI base camp to the Huaorani community over 5 days Day 1: 8 hours of trekking in primary rainforest (trekking from the Napo River, near our base camp to Huaorani tribe territory). Night in jungle hammocks in Wentaro community. Day 2: 5 hours of jungle hiking. Night in jungle hammocks with Kewediono tribe Day 3: Full day in Kewediono, where GVI interns teach at the high school. We'll be building a community building for the tribe and visiting the school where donation money will be spent. Day 4: Full day kayaking down the Shiripuno River to a tent camp near the community of Nenkepare, where we'll camp out and hike to the area's largest waterfall.  Day 5: On our last day, we'll travel by canoe down the Shiripuno river, seeing firsthand along the way the negative effects of oil on the region.

Phil's Trip into the unknown (and canoe out of it)

Phil's Trip into the unknown (and canoe out of it)

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