Yachana's mission is to provide community-based solutions to poverty and environmental degradation in the rain forest. The future of the tropical forest is inextricably linked to the well-being of its inhabitants. Our socially conscious tourism and training programs are simultaneously conserving the rain forest and providing opportunities in income generation, micro-finance, health, sustainability and entrepreneurism for the people of the region.
Each of GlobalGiving’s nonprofit partners is required to send quarterly donor reports detailing the impact of their work. Here are some of their recent updates:
By Douglas McMeekin | Executive Director, Yachana Foundation
Conservation is a major focus of the foundation. An important way to protect the forest is to work with the bee pollinators. Our interesting community based project of working with Melipona stingless... Read the full report ›By Douglas McMeekin | Executive Director, Yachana Foundation
Another project we have is for the elderly that started out as a way to help reduce loneliness among this population. It has morphed from our original plan and now is more focused on health, taking... Read the full report ›By Douglas McMeekin | Executive Director, Yachana Foundation
Hi friends of all three of our GlobalGiving projects. One of those projects is to Help Build a Clinic in the Amazon. It is a vitally needed project that is unfortunately in an interesting state of... Read the full report ›
