Omar Tello, the humble maverick who restored a plot of Ecuadorian rainforest in the face of widespread deforestation

Globally, forests are being cleared for development at a horrifying rate. Seeing the destruction of his native land, Omar Tello was triggered to take on a mission of a lifetime. He bought a plot of land and restored an oasis of rainforest. 40 years ago, Omar Tello bought a patch of land stretching approximately 100 meters in each direction near…

New Story continues to tackle homelessness by building 3D printed community in a secret location in Latin America

New Story is a non-profit organisation dedicated to finding solutions to homelessness. Together with the design studio Fuseproject and homebuilding technology company ICON, they plan to build a 3D-printed community in a secret location in Latin America. The United Nations stated in 2019, that population growth and urbanisation are moving faster than the construction of adequate and affordable housing. The…

Biblioburro: the donkey powered mobile library educating and empowering children and communities in rural Colombia

22 years ago primary school teacher, Luis Soriano, decided to share his modest collection of 70 books with children in his rural town of La Gloria and the surrounding areas of the Magdalena Province. His donkey-powered mobile library service, over the years had enriched and empowered the impoverished communities with the access to a wide variety of literature. Luis Soriano…

Corales de Paz turned to citizen science to create a sustainable Reef Check program to monitor coral reefs in Colombia

Corales de Paz is a non-governmental organisation that facilitates an on-going citizen science Reef Check program in Colombia. The primary goal is to unite the diving tourism industry, local fishermen and the scientific community, to educate participants and find a viable method of continued evaluation of the tropical coral reef. In 2014, the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network and the…

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