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 environment 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.

23/12/2025

✨ From Our Pachaysana Family to Yours ✨

As we close the year, we’re taking a deep breath, a slow stretch, and a moment to smile at all the beautiful mingas, muddy hands, shared meals, and intercultural joy that shaped 2025.

Wherever you are, may the coming weeks bring rest, laughter, reconnection, and a spark of inspiration for the year ahead.

Thank you for learning, building, unlearning, and imagining with us.
See you in 2026. We are ready for more co-creation, more community, and more abundance. 🌱💛

19/12/2025

As the year winds down, and we (hopefully) find moments for rest and reflection, we invite you to visit our blog and read the newest piece by our wonderful Rehearsing Change alum (Spring 2024), Hannah Podol ’25.

Her writing is a call to action and a call to pause; a celebration, a reminder, a meditation, and a playful invitation to reimagine the world with others.

Here is a glimpse: “Pachaysana’s pedagogy invites every participant—local and international—to enter a rehearsal space. We co-create the learning. We unlearn colonial and modern assumptions together. And we begin to discover what it means to make change rooted in relationships, in small daily actions, shared meals, embodied learning, and art that welcomes contradiction.”

Follow the link to read the blog: https://www.humansforabundance.com/post/rehearsing-new-worlds-reflections-on-community-learning-and-hope-from-p%C3%ADntag-and-mushullakta

Thank you, Hannah, for sharing your heart and wisdom.
Happy holidays to our entire Pachaysana community.

16/12/2025

Looking Back at 2025: Children of the Living Forest School

As we close the year, we return to one of our brightest community-led efforts: the Children of the Living Forest School in Mushullakta. Co-created with mothers, elders, and local leaders, the school has become a powerful example of what intercultural, land-based education can be.

In 2025, learning flowed between classrooms, gardens, kitchens, rivers, and towering native trees. Children grew not only in knowledge, but in confidence, wellbeing, and belonging. This year, the impact was clearer than ever.

🌱 Highlights From This Year’s Impact

Forest health: students practiced seed collection, native tree propagation, and water protection.

Student wellbeing: joyful learning rooted in movement, arts, gardening, forest walks, and nourishing meals.

Family unity: children study at home rather than leaving for distant cities.

Intercultural exchange: reciprocal learning with international students and visiting educators.

Cultural revitalization: students learn how to learn, collaborate, care for their territory, and sustain their ancestral community.

In Mushullakta, education is not separate from life; it grows from the land, from family, and from the forest itself. As we look back on 2025, we’re filled with gratitude for the teachers, families, co-restorers, and partners who make this possible.

When children learn with the forest and for their future, they become the protectors the forest has been waiting for. 🌱💚

12/12/2025

Looking Back at 2025: Unlearning as Everyday Practice

This year, unlearning moved from a concept to a lived, grounded practice across our communities and partner institutions. Through retreats, workshops, storytelling sessions, and embodied dialogue, we saw something clearly: unlearning is not abstract or confusing. It is concrete, doable, and deeply practical.

Unlearning helps us recognize the patterns we’ve inherited, ways of thinking, teaching, relating, and deciding that no longer serve justice or wellbeing, and gently replace them with practices that do. It is not dramatic or disorienting; it is steady, reflective work that opens space for clearer action, healthier relationships, and more intentional leadership.

✨ Unlearning Retreats 2026

In 2026, we invite educators, students, activists, administrators, and anyone seeking grounded transformation to join our Unlearning Retreats in Ecuador.

These retreats are:
Deep but not overwhelming
Practical and applicable
Intercultural and relational
Restorative and grounding

Unlearning isn’t about discarding everything we know. It’s about clearing space for what we truly want to practice, individually and collectively.

🌎 Join Us in 2026 - https://www.pachaysana.org/unlearning-retreats

If you’re seeking tools to transform your work, your relationships, or your approach to education and social change, this is your invitation. Come unlearn with us, and with the communities who have shaped this work from the beginning.

09/12/2025

Celebrating 7 Years with Northwestern GESI

This December, we’re looking back with deep gratitude at the year's activities and celebrating our partnerships, beginning by recognizing our seven-year partnership with Northwestern University’s Global Engagement Studies Institue.

This summer, interns Alyssa and Talia joined our longtime partners in Pintag Amaru, where they engaged in bioconstruction, community design projects, and local cultural initiatives. Their dedication and the relationships they built with community members and host families helped move key EcoVillage projects forward in powerful ways.

We’re grateful for their leadership, humility, and presence, and for GESI’s ongoing commitment to community-centered global learning.

Here’s to continued collaboration rooted in reciprocity and shared growth.

05/12/2025

Looking Back at 2025: Bioconstruction in Movimiento Píntag Amaru

As we look back on 2025, one of the most inspiring stories comes from Pintag Amaru, where bioconstruction has become both a craft and a collective way of imagining the future. Families, youth, and visiting intercultural groups worked side by side, hands in mud, bamboo, and reclaimed wood, to build structures rooted in reciprocity rather than extraction.

Across the year, meditation rooms, storage spaces, kitchen expansions, and gathering areas took shape through shared labor and shared laughter. Every beam and adobe mix carries the imprint of many hands, including those of international students and collaborators who joined the community in learning, creating, and leaving their mark. In Pintag, the work is always collective.

Bioconstruction in Pintag isn’t just practical. It’s poetic.
It’s a return to play, to mud on hands, to ancestral ingenuity, and to building a world where wellbeing comes from connection, to place, to craft, and to each other.

02/12/2025

This Giving Tuesday, give differently.

Many of us live far from the Amazon, but we are all connected to it through the air we breathe and the climate that sustains us.

At Pachaysana, we believe giving isn’t about guilt or charity, it’s about relationship. When you become a monthly co-restorer, you join Indigenous families who are regenerating forests, protecting water, and teaching their children to become the next generation of forest guardians. 🌳

This week, make a commitment that grows.
✨ Choose your plan, Seed, Root, Forest, or Biosphere, and give with, not to.

🔗 Join today by following this link.
https://www.humansforabundance.com/monthly-plans
Together, we restore ecosystems and re-story our world. 🌎💚

27/11/2025

A Community of Care

In seasons of celebration, we’re reminded to return to what truly nourishes us.

As many of our friends and supporters enter the Thanksgiving and holiday period, we hope you find space to slow down, reconnect, and celebrate abundance without excess. These weeks can easily pull us toward stress or consumption, but they can also invite us back to memory, wellbeing, and community.

Our recent Open House of Health and Memory with the Children of the Living School in Mushullakta offered exactly that kind of pause: a moment for families, students, and elders to gather, reflect, and root themselves in practices that sustain life: ceremony, intergenerational learning, joyful movement, shared stories, and care.

This season, we offer you these images from Mushullakta as gentle reminders:
to breathe,
to ground,
to reconnect with what keeps you well,
and to remember that healing and celebration are always collective.

May your days ahead be filled with presence, gratitude, and community.

24/11/2025

☕🌳 In Mushullakta, coffee is more than a drink, it’s about conservation. It is the taste of living reciprocity.

Families are transforming organic coffee production into a model of restoration: beans grown under forest canopy, harvested by hand, toasted and packaged locally. Started by one family, the movement now has 12 participating families.

Coffee sustains ecosystems and families. Each cup is a reciprocity that nourishes bodies, territories, and futures.

21/11/2025

From Restorers to Educators

Restoration is more than planting trees, it’s about teaching, sharing, and inspiring. 🌱

During our recent Unlearning Retreat, international educators joined Leonidas and Maxy at Maxy’s farm and witnessed ancestral health in action: reforestation projects, diversified chakras (food forests), and stories of the land thriving in every family’s care.

For the elders, this recognition was a gift, affirming their wisdom, nourishing their spirits, and honoring their dignity. 🌾

Becoming educators keeps us restoring and re-storying. Each lesson shared, each story told, each child inspired is another seed planted in our collective future. 🌎💚

Learn more by reading Maya’s blog, “In Maxy’s Hands,"
https://www.humansforabundance.com/post/in-maxy-s-hands

14/11/2025

Meet Maya, a Rehearsing Change alum and incredible storyteller who worked with our partner communities in the Amazon, learning from elders and with youth at the Children of the Living Forest school in Mushullakta.

Her contribution to our blog is a love letter to Maxy, an elder whose hands carry the memory of the forest. His spirit and commitment to replanting ancestral wisdom are contagious. When you visit Mushullakta, you can feel it.

“The forest has a lot to say — and there is memory in the soil, and knowing in Maxi’s hands.”

Read Maya’s story and meet Maxi: https://www.humansforabundance.com/post/in-maxy-s-hands

12/11/2025

✨ What does it mean to be an intercultural leader?

Six weeks of learning, unlearning, and living together; dreaming of an intercultural future where different ways of knowing are woven into the creation of a new world. 🌎

This summer, 23 Cornell University students from the Laidlaw Leadership Scholars Program joined the communities of Pintag Amaru and Mushullakta, discovering that leadership is not about being the loudest voice or carrying responsibility for others.

It’s about relationship, reciprocity, and walking side by side toward shared futures. 🌱

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0984470084

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

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