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Amazon Community School

Location: Amazon, Ecuador

Over 10 years ago Gap Adventures began working with a local family in the Ecuadorian Amazon to develop a community-based tourism program where travellers are given the opportunity to experience daily life in the jungle, with Delfin Pauchi, his wife Estela and their six children. 

When we first started working in this community, children had to walk several hours to get to school but with funds generated through our community-based tourism program and the rest donated by community members, a school was built which now supports children between the ages of 6 and 12. 

Through Planeterra and traveller support we have continuously contributed to the development of the community school with donations going towards school supplies, teaching materials, providing drinking water and the construction of a kitchen and eating area.  

With little opportunity for children of the community to study past secondary school, we have now developed a brand new scholarship fund that will enable youth from this school to follow their chosen career path, providing them with better opportunities for the future.

Travellers can visit this project by participating on Gap Adventures’ Inland & Amazon tour, where you will have the opportunity to experience real life in the Amazon with Delfin and his family.

Donate to our Amazon Scholarship Fund
Through Planeterra your donation to this project will help us provide scholarships for youth in this community in trade schools, colleges and universities.
 
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100% of your contribution goes directly toward helping these projects achieve their goals and all individual donations are matched dollar-for-dollar by Gap Adventures to double the impact!



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