Project Report
| Jun 4, 2024
We are constantly making progress
By Douglas McMeekin | Executive Director
A couple of days ago we started the remodeling of the building where we will put a new medical clinic and laboratory. This is to replace one that the Napo River destroyed last year. We need a lot of help to get the equipment for the clinic and lab, so if you have any contacts please get back to me. This medical facility is so vitally needed, especially for elderly people in the region. It will provide medical and laboratory services for a population of around 10,000. Many other projects are also moving forward like our work with the University IKIAM where they will be sending students in June, and our agricultural projects also keep advancing. Plus a lot more is going on. So keep in touch. Thanks for your support. And remember, I love you Douglas
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Feb 8, 2024
lot going on
By Douglas McMeekin | Executive Director
Here we are in the beginning of a new year, 2024 and at Yachana it is an exciting time. We have a bunch of different projects we are working on that are in different stages of development. Many of these projects would be available for retired or older people. We are working with the university IKAIM located in our provincial capital of Tena. Yachana will be their Bio Campus. We are remodeling a building we have for it to be a medical clinic that will be managed and equipped by the Ministry of Health. We are doing a lot of research and work with our little Melipona bees, a native stingless bee. Another perfect project for older people with patience. And we are starting to work with macro photography which is making the identification of these tiny insects possible. With this photography technique we can take a little insect that is three millimeters long (more or less 3/32 of an inch, small) and blow it up to facilitate identification. These, and many more things we are working on, show how the institution is growing in many different areas. Your support is vitally important to us, we need it more than ever right now. Thanks, keep following us, “and remember, I love you” Douglas
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Oct 18, 2023
Yachana Rainforest
By Douglas McMeekin | Executive Director, Yachana Foundation
On August 20, 2023, Ecuadorians went go to the polls and voted on a referendum to force the government to not continue oil exploration in the Yasuni National Park, a UNESCO Man and Biosphere Reserve. The Yasuni has the highest biodiversity in the WORD! The Referendum passed with a strong majority in favor of not continuing oil exploration in the park. There are a lot of big money organizations/corporations who are against this vote and are going to try to turn it around. So now we will just have to wait, but it is encouraging that most of the people were on the side of conservation. Meanwhile, Yachana has been awarded a contract from UNESCO to do a preliminary study in preparation of a management plan for the Sumaco Man and Biosphere Reserve. Our 1,000 hectares of rainforest is within this reserve. Conservation is a main pillar within our organization. Thanks for your support, it is vitally important to us, so please keep helping as much as you can. Thanks, and remember, I love you Douglas
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