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.

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. 🌱

29/10/2025

🌱 Body–Territory: Learning from the Land through Our Bodies

In Mushullakta, students and community members traced their bodies onto paper, filling the outlines with colors and stories. Each line, each shade, told a story of connection between emotion and landscape, between memory and forest.

This practice, called Body–Territory Mapping, reminds us that the body is our first territory. It's alive, political, and sacred. When we draw, we recognize that what happens to the forest happens to us. Healing the land means healing ourselves.

In this work, laughter and tears flow together. Conflicts appear as rivers to be redirected, as seeds to be transformed. Learning becomes a collective act of restoration of the body, the territory, and the community.

24/10/2025

🌍✨ Restoring forests. Re-storying our world.

We’re excited to share 4 new levels of monthly commitment with Humans for Abundance—ways for you to stand with Indigenous families of the Amazon and Andes as they regenerate ecosystems and protect culture. 💚

By subscribing, you:
🌱 Collect and store seeds of keystone species
🌿 Cultivate saplings in our nurseries
🌳 Support food forests & regenerative agriculture
📚 Provide education for Indigenous restorers and fund our Children of the Living Forest school

Every plan—Seeds, Roots, Forest, Biosphere—contributes to this work at different levels of affordability. Together, they weave a fabric of restoration that goes beyond borders.

✨ Become a monthly co-restorer today and help us grow a future of abundance: https://www.humansforabundance.com/monthly-plans

21/10/2025

Celebrating Pachaysana's Summer 2025 Internships: Storytelling & Restoration

Students from Macalester, Wesleyan, Brandeis & Brown joined youth in Mushullakta to co-create stories of their forest and their futures, reminding us that storytelling is a form of restoration. 💚

16/10/2025

Spring 2025 was filled with joy, learning, and collective creation. From soil to stories, from classrooms to forests, our students and communities showed that laughter is the doorway to serious learning. 💚

We share images from Isabel and Isabelle (Ibby), from American and Wesleyan universities, having laughs in Pintag and Mushullakta.

13/10/2025

🌎 Indigenous Peoples’ Day is a call to unlearn.

As Sayri Bautista, one of our community educators, reminds us: many of us were taught in school that Indigenous peoples were “ignorant” before colonization. These lies made generations feel shame for their language, culture, and identity.

But the truth is the opposite: our ancestors held profound wisdom about balance, interconnection, and the responsibility of caring for territory and community.

Unlearning means questioning the stories we’ve inherited. It means making space for Indigenous voices, for rituals, for languages, for ways of life that have been silenced but never extinguished.

✨ On this Indigenous Peoples’ Day, our community partners ask us to work toward unlearning colonial storiesand relearn how to walk with reciprocity and respect.

Read Sayri's Blog! https://www.humansforabundance.com/post/october-12-a-reflection-on-identity-resistance-and-the-wisdom-of-our-ancestors

✨ On this Indigenous Peoples’ Day, our community partners ask us to work toward unlearning colonial stories and relearn how to walk with reciprocity and respect.

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