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.

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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27/01/2026

Breaking the cycle, together

Responding to the violent times in which we are living, the Mushullakta community asked us to join them and the Children of the Living Forest School for an anti-violence workshop rooted in relationship, listening, and collective responsibility. Through creative sessions with elders, peer dialogues, and family conversations, students named the cycle of violence: (calm → tension → violent expression → reconciliation) and chose a different path.

Through theatre-based exercises, we arrived at a powerful shared commitment: to recognize tension early and move directly to reconciliation. Together, students, parents, educators, and community members said “I commit to breaking the cycle,” tearing apart the word violence and returning it to the earth as compost, transforming harm into nourishment.

Now, our students are inspired to create and lead their own workshops, sharing this learning with neighboring communities and working toward an Amazon free of violence.

We are deeply proud of this collective commitment to care, accountability, and healing.

This is how a living forest grows.

23/01/2026

We’ve become a little obsessed with building the perfect CV, stacking summer internships, polishing skills, and checking boxes.

But here’s what we’ve learned: the internships that truly matter don’t just prepare you for a job. They shape who you are.

At Pachaysana, our interns don’t just gain workplace experience. They learn how to work with people. How to navigate uncertainty. How to listen, reflect, and respond when things are complex and real.

Our interns learn how to live and work in community, and they leave knowing themselves better.

Don’t just add another line to your CV. Add depth to who you are.

Check more at our webpage: https://www.pachaysana.org/summerinternships

21/01/2026

Unlearning reciprocity.

In our Unlearning Retreats, you take a journey that reshapes how you show up in the world.

We practice relationships rooted in care, balance, and shared responsibility. Listening guides our speaking, and we arrive willing to be changed, not only hoping to bring change to the world.

This way of (un)learning helps us become more grounded educators, more ethical leaders, and more attentive human beings.

Come unlearn with us. We loosen control and learn to embrace the complexity that comes from living in relationship—with people, place, and the living world.

15/01/2026

New Year Practice: Rehearsing Change

This year, I commit to practicing the world I want to live in, through dialogue, creativity, and courageous collaboration.

Because change isn’t declared; it’s rehearsed together.

🎭 Rehearsing change with Pachaysana

12/01/2026

New Year Pledge: Carbon Onsetting

In the year ahead, I commit to doing my part so that my workplace takes responsibility for our footprint, through relationship and repair.

I choose to invest in living systems and the people restoring them.

🌍 Practicing responsibility through Carbon Onsetting

09/01/2026

New Year Commitment: Children of the Living Forest School

This year, I commit to nurturing life where it begins:
in children, in forests, in ancestral knowledge passed hand to hand.

I choose education rooted in relationship with land, culture, and community,
and futures where children grow as protectors of their territories and ways of life.

Children of the Living Forest School with Pachaysana
https://www.pachaysana.org/forest-school

07/01/2026

New Year Orientation: Humans for Abundance

This year, I choose to believe in abundance, not scarcity.

I commit to supporting ways of living that regenerate soil, culture, and community, where life can thrive together.

🌱 Growing abundance with Humans for Abundance

Dirección

Cumbayá

Teléfono

0984470084

Página web

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

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