The first ever GVI Amazon multi-day Charitable Trust Challenge is ON!!!
Please support our team as we brave Amazon jungle and rivers for 5 days to raise money to support education in rural Amazon communities.
We'll spend 2 grueling days hiking with a Huaorani guide through dense, hilly, hot, humid, bug-infested jungle to go deep into the Huaorani indigenous territory. We'll be hosted by the Huaorani community of Wentaro the first night, sleeping in jungle hammocks in their traditional thatch-roof shelter, and then continue on the community of Kewediono. There we'll join the community in cultural activities, a work project, and a visit to the outstanding high school project set up there, where GVI 6-month interns help teach skills like biodiversity monitoring, computer literacy, English, art and photography, alongside teachers of core subjects and Huaorani culture classes.
But it doesn't end there... after 2 nights in jungle hammocks in the community, we then take to the water as we kayak all day down the Shiripuno River, hoping to catch a glimpse of some of the area's rarest birds. We'll stop for the night at the tent camp near the community of Nenkepare, where we'll put our boots on once more for a hike to the region's largest waterfall and a well-deserved dip!
Our last day will be a canoe ride out to the Shiripuno bridge, where oil development meets jungle head on, and we'll see firsthand the realities of development in the Amazon, and why it's so important for these communities to receive access to education, so they can fight to monitor, defend and protect their lands.
Money raised through this challenge will go to support the following projects:
- camera traps/equipment for the Nongi Togoro high school in the Huaorani community of Kewediono
- sponsorship of the sustainable development seed planting project through Sumak Allpa, another GVI intern site, and the Sumak Allpa youth environmental group
- books, supplies and hands-on science equipment for the GVI Mobile Museum, to take environmental education to our local school classrooms
- future support of education projects at Sani Isla, where GVI interns teach English, science and sports
Please support our brave challengers and help us to meet our goal!!!
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