Climate Action Peru Project #19080

Agroforestry the Peruvian Amazon

by Alianza Arkana

Project Report | Jul 7, 2015
Examples of our last three months work made possible by your support

By Dr Paul Roberts | Director Intercultural Education, Alianza Arkana

Meeting about how to operate the new library

First of all a huge thank you to all those of you who have contributed to this project which aims to finacially support Alianza Arkana in our mission to be forming grassroots alliances to help protect and regenerate the Peruvian Amazon through supporting its indigenous peoples and their customs.

In return for your support we have invited you to our online learning community. We have had two on-line forums for that community - the first entitled 'Social Leadership in an Internet Age' and the second which is just coming to an end on 'Conversation as a practice in Social and Political Change'. Slowly, we are gathering momentum for these online forums. The second forum in particular has generated some interesting conversations which can still be read and commented on.

In the nearly three months since we began this project, donations made on this site have enables us to do the following work in each of our three key program areas of intercultural education, social and environmental justice, and community-based solutions (permacultire and eco-sanitation):

Support the construction of a library and a mural in a primary school in the Shipibo community of Santa Clara where one of our volunteers is working.

Paint a mural on the wall of the kindergarten school in the urban Shipibo community of Bena Jema together with the teachers and children from the school

Set up a one day workshop in the Shipibo community of Poayan about community members' legal rights in relation to the oil and gas company beginning to operate on their territory. At this workshop we gave three presentations, two by Shipibo students working closely with Alianza Arkana from communities effected by the operations of the oil company.

Build a small nursery on our office and volunteer accommodation site in the indigenous part of Pucallpa which we are converting into a working model of an urban permaculture site.

Once again many thanks for your support and I look forward to being in contact with you through our learning community site.

Registration for workshop in Poayan

Bringing the jungle to an urban Shipibo school

Our volunteer, Fin, building the nursery structure

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