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Making recycled paper cards
We are currently making 1000 recycled paper cards to send to Shepard Middle School in Chicago. Here are some photos to show our process of making the cards.
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We are continuing to improve the space given to us by UNORCAC to transform it into the Cotacachi Youth Office. The local government has donated a majority of the building supplies (concrete, tiling, sand, etc) and the scholarship students and their parents have agreed to put in the labor. We are almost finished putting in […]
More InfoVisiting a Local Organic Farm in the Cotacachi community of El Batan
Our eco-club recently went on a field trip to an organic integrated farm in one of the nearby Cotacachi communities, called El Batan. This farm is owned by Hector and Aya, who carefully plan and cultivate organic vegetables to sell to the Cotacacheños. By using natural fertilizers (such as manure tea, compost, animal feces etc), […]
More InfoMinga in the space UNORCAC has given to the ASEAC scholarship students
We had a minga this past Saturday to weed and accommodate the small piece of land that UNORCAC has given to the ASEAC scholarship students to make into their own office. Eventually we would like to have a small organic garden in this space. Also Carlos Alta (The President of ASEAC) had petitioned the Cotacachi […]
More InfoThe Christmas luncheon with the ASEAC professors, the scholarship students and local donors
We enjoyed the company of the ASEAC professors, the scholarship students and local donors on the 23rd of December for a Christmas luncheon. The students arrived in the morning and played on the soccer field. By 1pm everyone had arrived and we had a lunch of traditional Ecuadorian food.
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