Project Sumak
Allpa
with Indigenous Guide Hector Vargas
Hector Vargas joined Su Sigrist and Amazon
Superfoods touring five US
cities in September, 2007. Hector's
presentation on the history and current
situation in the Ecuadorian Amazon was
enthusiastically received. If you were not
able to attend one of these presentations,
click
here to view Hector's slides.
For those interested in helping the school at
Sumak Allpa, please
click here.
Hector teaching the
students at Escuela Sumak Allpa
Hector showing volunteers how palm fronds are
used in the jungle. |
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Read about the
mission and vision
of Sumak Allpa
by Hector
Vargas here.
More about the on-going projects,
volunteering
on the island, and the partnership with Amazon
Superfoods
here.
More of Sumak Allpa
here.
See more about Escuela Sumak Allpa, the school
we are helping here.
More school pictures
here.
Read more about Sumak Allpa
here. |
Hector Vargas
has
been a rainforest
guide for 25 years.
He is past
secretary of the
Amazon Defense
Front, co-author
of the book |
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Amazon Worlds. He was also featured in
Discovery Channel's The Road Of Orellana and
is founder of The Omaere Ethno-botanical
Garden in Puyo. He is the founder and
current director of the SUMAK ALLPA PROJECT,
a non-profit foundation based in the Amazon
Rainforest in Ecuador. |
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