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Donate Along With Us Funding Area: Environment
At the Foundation for Integrated Education and Development (FUNEDESIN), we are dedicated to finding sustainable solutions in the struggle between the ideals of rain forest preservation and the realities of life in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
We work with local communities to develop community-based medical care and ecotourism programs, establish sustainable agricultural practices, improve education, provide environmentally sustainable economic alternatives, and conserve the rain forest.
FUNEDESIN employs an innovative development model based on a non-profit/for-profit organizational structure. The non-profit Foundation has created two for-profit companies, Yachana Lodge and Yachana Gourmet, to finance its fight against poverty and disease and the destruction of Ecuador’s imperiled rain forest.
One hundred percent of the profits from both companies support FUNEDESIN’s rain forest conservation, poverty reduction, healthcare, and community development projects, guaranteeing their long-term financial sustainability.
Our involvement: The Philip and Helen Brecher Charitable Fund has financially supported this organization.
Projects We Support
Purchase of primary and secondary rainforest in the area that FUNEDESIN is working.
Support Dates: May, 2006 – May, 2007
