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.

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.

12/02/2026

🤝Learning solidarity has never been more urgent.

✨At Pachaysana, we understand solidarity not as an idea, but as a practice, something cultivated through relationship, responsibility, and showing up alongside others.

🍀Our Internship Program is an incubator for that practice. Interns learn by doing: working with Indigenous communities, engaging decolonial education, and unlearning extractive ways of relating to land, knowledge, and each other.

🦋If you are looking for a place to grow into the kind of person this moment calls for, there is still time to apply.

📆Applications due March 15
📍https://www.pachaysana.org/summerinternships

09/02/2026

How we honor your support

When someone supports our work, we don’t simply send a receipt.
Depending on the donation, community members (often students from our Children of the Living Forest School) walk into the forest to find an old-growth tree they call a grandparent.

These are ancestral trees, always over 100 years old and sometimes closer to 500 years old. We don’t rush. We spend time with the tree, recognizing it as part of a living web of relationships, within the forest and far beyond it.

We then carefully mark the tree as dedicated in the donor’s name and later share a photo collage as a gesture of gratitude and connection.

This process takes time. But all relationships do.

And like a forest, they grow slowly, with care.

04/02/2026

Our hearts are with our colleagues, friends, and community in the Twin Cities. From our dear collaborators at Macalester College, University of St. Thomas, and the Center for Climate Literacy at the University of Minnesota, to the many undocumented and documented Ecuadorians and immigrant families living through fear, violence, and uncertainty every day.

Last October, during our visit, we gathered in community to make masks together. The invitation was simple and profound:
Create the mask that represents a character you want to cultivate in yourself, and then grow into it.

Those masks remind us now that identity is not fixed. It is practiced. It is imagined. It is protected and reshaped in community.

In a moment when immigration enforcement is inflicting harm and violating human rights, we reject systems that demand people hide, disappear, or live in fear, not allowing them to grow and live in community. At Pachaysana, we do not support this kind of violence. We believe in dignity, care, and the right to become who we are meant to be.

02/02/2026

Climate change is not only warming the planet... it is moving entire ecosystems.

Forests, plants, and animals are being pushed into new territories, reshaping the balance of life across regions and borders.

Too often, we measure these changes only through economic value: what nature produces, what can be extracted, what can be priced. But what happens to what cannot be measured in dollars, like clean water, biodiversity, cultural meaning, or relationships?

As ecosystems shift, we are being asked a deeper question:
What do we choose to value?

Read our latest Blog post by Paula Iturralde-Pólit, our Humans for Abundance coordinator.

"The Value of What Cannot Be Priced"
📍https://www.humansforabundance.com/post/the-value-of-what-cannot-be-priced
*This blog was originally published in Spanish in Revista Endémico

30/01/2026

The Spring 2026 semester of Rehearsing Change has begun and we welcome new students into our ever changing intercultural community!

For Pachaysana, the start of each new semester of Rehearsing Change Study Abroad is not just another academic cycle kicking in. Each semester is an active decision to choose a different path.

We believe that there are other ways of living, and we choose to act on our belief by fostering the messy, beautiful, difficult work of building intercultural communities.

🤝Do you believe that other ways of living and being are possible? Will you choose to act with your community or with the Pachaysana community?

🔗Applications for the Fall 2026 semester of Rehearsing Change are still open! Join us in Ecuador for an intentional semester of choosing other ways of living and being.

Early Application deadline: March 15th
Normal application deadline (if spots are still available): April 15th
Late application deadline (if spots are still available): May 15th

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