Humans for Abundance

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Ecuador
Cumbayá
Humans for Abundance

Restoring ecosystems & re-storying identities with Indigenous partners in Amazon & Andes in Ecuador. We believe that humans can be the source of abundance.

If we join forces and act in a synchronized, collaborative way, we can fight climate change, reverse biodiversity loss, and improve the quality of life for all beings on the planet. With a mission to create synchronization and urgently restore and conserve our planet’s most vital ecosystems, Humans for Abundance (H4A) created a digital bridge where city-dwellers who want to do more for the environ

ment can join forces with locals who have the knowledge, the land, the access, and the desire to bring back life.

Locals become RESTORERS while city-dwellers become CO-RESTORERS. Together, they run a win-win system that creates an immediate triple impact: social, economic and environmental. On our digital bridge, co-restorers ask restorers to take the actions that they can’t take themselves. They do so by ordering the eco-actions that each restorer has designed according to their abilities and possibilities. It’s beneficial for both sides.

Restorers:

*no longer have to extract natural resources to cover basic needs.

*their knowledge and skills to restore and conserve nature are appreciated and rewarded.

*have access to better quality education, food and medicine.

*feel a sense of agency, opportunity and growth. Co-restorers:

*don’t have to wait for governments to fight climate change and biodiversity loss.

*generate immediate actions that benefit the environment and themselves in the long run.

*receive progress reports with scientific data and social impact metrics.

*feel a sense of relief, contribution and empowerment. Acting as propagation agents, we situate ourselves in the middle of both these worlds to facilitate collaboration. To our restorers, we provide guidance, support, and information, helping them become self-sustainable and skilled owners of their own projects and lands.

To our co-restorers, we provide in-person and satellite verification of eco-actions and detailed reports of social and environmental impact of their orders.

08/04/2026

As we move into our last month of our Rehearsing Change spring semester, we look back at final projects from our class, Creative Conflict Transformation

👤In Mushullakta, students and community participants came together for a process rooted in courage, trust, and deep listening.

🫂 This semester, they chose to engage a complex and sensitive topic: substance addiction and its impacts on community life. It required vulnerability, honesty, and a willingness to sit with difficult realities, and they did so with care and bravery.

🍀 We are deeply grateful to everyone who was part of this journey.
A special thank you to our students, Maya and Alma, and to our community participants, Oscar and Germania, for their commitment and openness.

✨ We are also incredibly proud of the work of our community educators from Pintag, May and Edwin, and of the Pachaysana team—Sarah and Daniel Millaghe—who accompanied this process with dedication and heart.

🦋 As we move into the last month of our Rehearsing Change spring semester, we look back at the final projects from our class, Creative Conflict Transformation

03/04/2026

At the Children of the Living Forest School, education is not just about what you learn—it’s about learning how to learn.

Our students grow through many pathways:
learning from elders in their community,
working with online tutors,
and teaching themselves through curiosity, practice, and creativity.

Whether sewing, exploring math, or creating art, they are not waiting to be taught; they are becoming active participants in their own learning journeys.

This is what education can look like when students take ownership, and when learning connects the wisdom of the forest with the tools of the world.

31/03/2026

Only 2 weeks left to register for our Unlearning Retreats in Ecuador.

Our August retreat is now full, but a few spaces remain for July (11th to 25th).

Escape the summer heat and experience the transformative power of Unlearning.

Live and learn alongside community educators in the Amazon.
And along the way you will:

- Learn the hidden stories at Quito’s historic center
- Stand on the equator and discover ancestral Andean astronomical knowledge
- Visit a local community in Otavalo
- Bathe in sacred rivers and waterfalls
- Rest in natural hot springs and reflect on our shared journey

But the real highlight?
Unlearning together

19/03/2026

This month, as we celebrated International Women’s Day, we paused to recognize the leadership of our Executive Director Chochi Iturralde.

In Mushullakta, ecosystem restorers are doing extraordinary work:
🌱 collecting and propagating seeds
🌳 planting and caring for trees
🌿 protecting 700 acres of primary forest
🏫 teaching daily in the Children of the Living Forest School
🌍 hosting international education programs
🏡 while also sustaining their own farms and families.

The work has grown so much that the community invited Chochi to help facilitate a new decentralized structure so responsibilities and decision-making can be shared.

Beautiful to witness leadership that strengthens community rather than centralizing power.

16/03/2026

Internship application date extended to April 15

We still have a few spots available in the Andean community of Pintag Amaru ()

Join community-led projects including:

-bioconstruction
-sustainable gardens
-theatre and artistic initiatives
-youth summer camps

Come learn what it means to live and work in community while contributing to regenerative projects in the Andes.

14/03/2026

Rainforest nightlife 🕷️🐸

When the sun goes down in the Amazon, the forest comes alive.

Spiders spin their webs, frogs start their chorus, and countless tiny creatures emerge from leaves, bark, and water.

Restoration work often focuses on big things — tall trees, birds, monkeys. But the real signs of a healthy forest are often much smaller.

Frogs, for example, are considered one of the best indicators of ecosystem health. Because they breathe partly through their skin and depend on clean water, their presence tells us a forest is recovering.

So when we walk the forest at night and see these little night-shift workers, we know something good is happening.

The forest is waking up again.

10/03/2026

Last days to apply to Rehearsing Change

Our classes don’t happen in classrooms; they happen in community. Local youth often join the process, and our students quickly get creative about how to include them in research, storytelling, and art projects.

Sometimes the best collaborators are the smallest ones.

Applications closing soon. Come learn where learning is shared.

06/03/2026

Pintag Amaru () says "Let's feed ourselves before the market"

In the Andes, many families wake before dawn, travel hours, and return home exhausted after selling organic cheese and produce in nearby markets.

Too often, the true value of artisanal and regenerative work is negotiated downward. And much of what is earned goes right back into buying food.

So we are asking a simple question:

What if we feed ourselves first?

With support from our monthly contributors, families in Pintag Amaru are expanding community gardens, increasing the production of organic soil, and strengthening internal exchange before going outward to market.

What if cheese is exchanged for vegetables?
What if grain is traded for dairy?
What if fewer long trips are necessary?

As you can see in the photos, cultivation is interwoven with ceremony, music, and ancestral tradition. The soil is nourished. Relationships are nourished.

Shared growing spaces are opening.
Local fairs are emerging. Celebrations of food, culture, and art welcome guests in, on their own terms.

We’ll keep you updated as this new project grows.

02/03/2026

Deadlines.

Dead.
Lines.

We’re not sure who invented that word, but it clearly wasn’t a forest.

We don’t believe time moves in straight lines.
We believe it spirals... returns... composts... transforms.

And death? Not an ending.
A returning-to... a creative re-manifestation.

And yet… here we are, living inside calendars.

If you’ve been feeling the pull, here are the next openings:

Rehearsing Change (Semester Program) and Summer Internships
📆Early: March 15
📍Final: April 15

Unlearning Retreat (July 11–25)
📆March 15 / April 15

📆Unlearning Retreat (Aug 1–15)
Fully rooted (at capacity)

Perhaps this is your moment to step in.

23/02/2026

“The rainforest embraces us every day.”
Kuri, Nila, Janela and Indira, from the , collect seeds, grow them, and return them to the forest. They know where to look, when to gather, and how to plant.

Caring for seeds is caring for life, and that is how the forest keeps its balance.

19/02/2026

What if the forest was your teacher?

This summer in Ecuador, our Unlearning Retreat invites you to learn from mountains, rivers, and Indigenous community leaders. It also invites us to question what education has taught us to forget.

Unlearn transaction
Unlearn extraction
Unlearn separation

Let's return to relationship with Pachaysana's partner communities in the Amazon (Mushullakta) & Andes (Píntag)

17/02/2026

The Spring 2026 students of Reherasing Change have begun their first course of the semester: Language, Identity and Justice, a space where we challenge students to broaden their Ayllu, the Kichwa word for community or extended family.

Language is a tool of connection, a tool for building relationships. For the past three weeks, students have learnt how to navigate the intersections of language, identity, and justice to construct and strengthen their Ayllu, both with human and non-human beings; a beautiful, difficult task of intercultural communication and connection.

Who makes up your Ayllu?

What can you do to strengthen and broaden your web of relationships?
Join us for the Fall 2026 semester of to explore intercultural community-building in Ecuador.

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Cumbayá

Teléfono

0984470084

Página web

http://www.pachaysana.org/, http://www.rehearsingchange.org/, http://www.humansforabundance.com/

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