Protect the Heartbeat of the Planet by Supporting Indigenous Education
Your support empowers Achuar youth to access education without leaving home, protecting culture, family, and the rainforest that sustains life on Earth.
Sponsor a Student. Preserve Culture, Language, and Traditional Knowledge.
Right now, students in the Achuar community of Sharamentsa can only complete their education through middle school. To attend high school, children as young as 14 years old must leave their community and travel to distant Ecuadorian towns and cities like Puyo or Quito.
The journey is long and expensive. Many students live away from their families for the entire school year—often for years at a time. At a pivotal age, they face isolation, cultural disconnection, and trauma, simply to access an education.
Our Sponsor a Student program changes this.
For $100 a month, you can ensure a child in Sharamentsa can continue their education without leaving home—staying connected to family, culture, language, and land during one of the most formative periods of their life.
This is not just about schooling. It is about protecting childhood, culture, family, and the rainforest that is the heartbeat of our planet.
This is not charity. It's a long term investment in planetary stability.
Supporting education for Indigenous youth in the Ecuadorian Amazon is one of the most effective ways to protect rainforest ecosystems long-term.
When Indigenous communities are able to educate their children within their culture, on their ancestral land, forests stay standing. When they are not, deforestation and displacement follow.
We must do our part to honor and stand with the very people whose wisdom and ancestral ways have protected life on earth for millennia.
The future of humanity and the planet lies in the hearts and hands of our youth.
The importance of creating pathways for Indigenous children to learn the ways of their ancestors, alongside modern teachings cannot be understated.
The Achuar community of Sharamentsa is located in one of the most intact and biodiverse regions of the Amazon Rainforest.
For thousands of years, the Achuar have protected this forest through living cultural systems rooted in reciprocity, respect, and responsibility and reverence to the natural world. Their territory remains whole not by accident, but by intention.
Sharamentsa is holding a living thread at the center of Earth’s tapestry.
Life-Centered Education for Achuar Youth—Keeping children home, connected, and thriving.
When Indigenous children are forced to leave home to access education, the cost is more than financial. It means cultural loss, emotional trauma, and weakened ties to community and land.
Our Sponsor a Student program is designed to prevent this travesty.
By supporting Life-Centered vs Human-Centered Education, you help young people grow into adulthood grounded in their cultural identity and wisdom, gaining skills they need to navigate the wider world.
Every student who learns without leaving their home and family contributes to a stronger, healthier planet.
The Amazon is the Heartbeat of our Planet
The Amazon helps regulate global climate, rainfall patterns, biodiversity, and carbon cycles. What happens here influences food systems, weather stability, and ecological resilience far beyond South America.
Protecting the rainforest is not about saving a distant place. It is about safeguarding the living systems that sustain modern life and keep our planet healthy.
Without the protection and commitment of the Achuar, this land teeming with life is lost. Land that holds medicinal medicines, potential cures for cancer, vast abundance of food and so much more.
If the Heartbeat Weakens, the World Feels It
Across the Amazon, forests are disappearing where Indigenous stewardship has been disrupted. The consequences are not only local. They ripple outward—accelerating climate instability and biodiversity loss.
Sharamentsa remains whole because the Achuar remain rooted, educated, and empowered to protect their land and culture. Their efforts support the well being of all life.
Sponsor a Student
$100 a Month
For $100 a month, you can walk alongside a student in Sharamentsa as they continue their education without leaving home.
Your sponsorship helps cover the real costs of learning—materials, instruction, connectivity, and community-based support—so students can stay with their families, elders, and forest.
When a child remains rooted, culture remains alive. When culture remains alive, the forest stays standing—the heartbeat of our planet continues strong.
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For $100 a month, you can walk alongside a student in Sharamentsa as they continue their education without leaving home.
Your sponsorship helps cover the real costs of learning—materials, instruction,
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