Through the Years
...One of the areas of improvement we are most proud of is our ongoing teacher and community leader workshops. The ability to bring teachers and community leaders together for an opportunity to learn new techniques and teaching strategies which focus on environmental education is an invaluable tool to advance our broader goal of environmental awareness. This year four 3-day workshops were held in the following communities: Tigrillo, Ramon Castilla, Santa Rosa, and Yurac Yacu... |
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...Our first mini water treatment plant has been built in the village of Timicuro Grande. We’re excited about this sustainable project as we’ve recently heard that a nearby lodge is purchasing their water from Timicuro Grande and they also have requests from the town of Indiana...
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...During the year, students and adults visiting Explorama’s Lodges on tourist programs took the time (anywhere from 1-5 days) to work in river villages on service projects which included building playgrounds, latrines, community gazebos, painting schools, planting trees, building bridges and fences. Visitors provided funding for supplies and worked hand-in-hand with community members to make these environmentally friendly projects possible. The objective of the service project is to help villagers as they improve their lives and their children’s to live in keeping with their natural surroundings...
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...In total, 19 communities along the Amazon and Napo Rivers benefited from the 2006 Service Projects. Projects and communities were: |
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...During the last week of April and the first week of May, along with the help of a group of great volunteers from the Detroit Zoo, CONAPAC delivered over 4,000 packets of school supplies to students and teachers in 62 communities along the Amazon and Napo Rivers. Every year we break a new record with this program, a dream come true...
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