Strengthening integrated economic sustainability and income generating alternatives to make possible the involvement of their own communities in the preservation of the Amazon ecosystem.
Operating since 1987, this project serves nearly 30,000 beneficiaries. The communities are mostly the descendents of indigenous people who possess virgin lands and produce for subsistence. This population is facing the exhaustion of its natural resources due to overfishing by commercial fishermen, deforestation due to wood extraction and forest burning. The social picture is extremely critical and the communities are submitted to a process of growing impoverishment due to a lack of alternatives.
Stimulating ecologically sustainable economic alternatives and establishing a point of reference through it’s training center.
To create a program for income generation.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
