This April 8, 2023 we invite you to be part of the “minga” (collective work) experience where you will work side-by-side with community members in a reforestation project to bring native plants back to the Andes in the nature preserve, Marcos Perez de Castilla in Oña, Azuay. You will also have the honor of speaking with community members about ancestral practices such as the minga and pampamesa. For lunch, you will participate in a local pampamesa meal (Andean potluck) where you will have more opportunities to interact and get to know the lovely people of the area. This will be a wonderful opportunity to work with community members in helping conserve the health and future of our planet while also conserving ancestral and communal practices of the Andes.
The event will be coordinated with local guide Hilda Ramón and Centerline Co-op members Daniela Samaniego and Diana Moscoso.
The Marcos Pérez de Castilla commune, legally constituted since 1992, has historically been organized for the protection of 11,000 hectares of páramo (Andean highlands), native forest, shrubby vegetation, and bodies of water, a territory that in 2019 was declared a community-protected area within the National System of Protected Areas (SNAP) by the Ministry of the Environment of Ecuador.
Saturday, April 8
7 am – evening
$55*
15-person limit
Reservations at: [email protected]
*everything included (transportation, meals, guides, tools and plants for reforestation project etc.)
This event is part of the ABYAVIVA: One Blood, One Voice initiative.
ABYAVIVA is an alliance of Co-op Centerline and The Waterbearers organization in Ecuador. It is an intercultural information platform that offers face-to-face and virtual conversations and live classrooms with communities committed to environmental governance for responsible management of ecosystems and the transmission of ancestral knowledge that guide human behavior for community growth
