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
We are involved in a very interesting project to study the prevalence of chronic malnutrition within the infant population in our area. This project is being managed by two doctors from a major... Read the full report ›By Douglas McMeekin | Executive Director
We are dealing with a lot of government controls on our clinic/laboratory project, but we have made some real progress in just the past two weeks. So I am hoping to see some results very... Read the full report ›By Douglas McMeekin | Executive Director
Environmental education is a key component of what we as an institution are working on. Joining with other organizations we are putting together a program for specialists to visit schools and talk... Read the full report ›
