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 environ

ment 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.

02/06/2026

Mushullakta is no longer a secret.

This community has dedicated the last years to protecting knowledge, stories, foods, forests, and ways of relating to the world that many people outside the Amazon rarely have had the chance to see or understand. But little by little, that is beginning to change.

Recently, local journalists visited the community to learn more about the restoration association, the educational work happening through the Children of the Living Forest School, and the growing collaborations taking place with visitors and learners from beyond the community. The local students had seen them on YouTube and said, "Wow! The You-Tubers are here."

Of course, every good story in Mushullakta begins with food.

The morning started with Mushullakta welcoming the guests with an incredible traditional breakfast lovingly prepared by community members. Featured here are bolones de verde: fried plantain balls filled with cheese or meat and shared around the table as conversations, laughter, and interviews unfolded. If these photos do not make you hungry, nothing will.

As one of the students proudly said while watching the cameras arrive:

“We are becoming famous… little by little.”

26/05/2026

What parts of yourself exist in the in-between?

Between cultures.
Between languages.
Between identities.
Between who you were and who you are becoming.

In a recent blog post, Daniel Bryan shares the in-between as uncertainty, as a place of not fully belonging anywhere. But slowly, through living and learning alongside communities in Ecuador, he began to understand that perhaps the in-between is not something to escape.

Perhaps it is a space of possibility.

A space where different stories can encounter one another. Where imagination can emerge. Where new ways of relating to each other and to the earth can begin to take root.

Maybe some part of your own story lives there too.

Follow the link to full story: https://www.humansforabundance.com/post/living-in-the-in-between

21/05/2026

Summer is here, and perhaps one of the most important things we can unlearn is the idea of “catching up.”

Many of our followers feel this is finally the time to get through that pending “to do” list, when perhaps what we really need is more attention to the “to be” list.

Maybe only one word belongs here: balance.

Not balance as perfection or constant productivity, but balance as attentiveness to ourselves, to others, and to the rhythms of life around us.

A couple of weeks ago, as we closed out our .change semester, a simple moment crossing a bamboo trunk over a natural pool became an unexpected reflection. Some crossed confidently. Others nearly fell while laughing. A toddler began with fervor, only to stop two steps in and ask for help, when his older brother stepped into the water and guided him across.

A reminder that balance is rarely an individual accomplishment.

It is something we practice through trust, care, relationship, and presence.

Wishing everyone a summer filled with moments of rest, play, and reconnection.

Many of our followers feel this is finally the time to get through that pending “to-do” list, when perhaps what we really need is more attention to the “to-be” list.

18/05/2026

Classes at the Children of the Living Forest School are not always what many people imagine when they think of “education.” In fact, we sometimes like to play with those expectations and question what counts as “real learning.”

Who remembers joking about classes like basket weaving as being “lesser” or “extra-curricular”?

Well, we had clearly never experienced a basket-weaving class with community educator José Narváez.

Because weaving is not simply about making a basket. It reminds us how much wisdom can exist within practices often dismissed as “simple,” “traditional,” or secondary to academic learning.

Basket weaving teaches through the body, through stories, and through relationships.

It begins with connection: intertwining plant fibers one piece at a time. It requires patience, attentiveness, adaptation, and the willingness to remove what no longer strengthens the weave. Eventually, what is created moves from one set of hands to another, becoming something shared collectively.

In many ways, it feels like a metaphor for community itself.

Perhaps the futures we hope to build will also need to be woven this way.

12/05/2026

What does it take to protect the Amazon in a world driven by extraction and profit?

The episode, “The Amazon and the Supply Chain,” which has been listened to over 150,000 times, explores one of the defining questions of our time: how do we create economic systems that allow forests to remain standing?

The episode, “The Amazon and the Supply Chain,” listened to over 150,000 times, explores one of the defining questions of our time: how do we create economic systems that make it possible for forests to remain standing?

In the conversation, Chochi reflects on Pachaysana’s work alongside Indigenous and rural communities in Ecuador to support regenerative agriculture, forest restoration, intercultural education, and community-led pathways toward economic sovereignty. The episode situates this work within broader conversations around the “bioeconomy,” models that seek to generate livelihoods through the protection and regeneration of ecosystems rather than their destruction.

The episode also includes conversations with leaders from Natura and Patagonia about sustainability, supply chains, and corporate responsibility.

At Pachaysana, we believe that restoring forests cannot be separated from restoring relationships, dignity, culture, and possibilities for future generations. The Amazon is not simply a resource to manage. It is a living territory sustained through relationships of care, memory, reciprocity, and collective responsibility.

Deep gratitude to Foreign Policy and the HERO podcast for helping bring these conversations to a broader audience.

Follow the Link to Listen "The Amazon and the Supply Chain":
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7f3GN8paNYcyKvoSZUNNhM?si=115961b96c4d4152
Apple podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-amazon-and-the-supply-chain/id1572532247?i=1000757236757

07/05/2026

Welcome to Humans for Abundance Features!

Over the coming months, we’ll be sharing some of the amazing community educators and knowledge holders who make this work possible.

Meet Leonidas Narvaez from Mushullakta.

Some people lead through certainty. Others lead through curiosity.
Leonidas leads by listening, guiding, and playing.

Alongside helping facilitate Pachaysana’s programs and Unlearning Retreats, he also serves as president of the community, often traveling across the Amazon to represent Mushullakta in gatherings and collective processes.

But what makes Leonidas special is not only the many roles he holds. It is the way he moves through the world: with humor, openness, attentiveness, and an ability to make people feel at ease.

One moment he is guiding conversations about territory, education, and community life. The next, he is making everyone laugh.

Over the coming months, we’ll be sharing the stories of some of the amazing community educators and knowledge holders who make this work possible.

30/04/2026

A phone with a camera and our invitation to students from Children of the Living Forest School to “Show us a glimpse of your world.”

So today we share glimpses of Mushullakta, seen through the eyes of the Children of the Living Forest

Their photos and videos. Their words. Their stories.

Education rooted in place, culture, and relationship with the forest.

And you can be part of it.

For just $30/month, you help sustain the community educators who walk alongside these students, sharing knowledge, stories, and ways of living that keep the forest alive.

Join this growing community of restorers and co-restorers.

🔗 Link in bio - monthly plans subscription

27/04/2026

We understand that everything is interconnected. Our programs are too.

Today, we want to share an activity where our partners from the community, as part of the Humans for Abundance program, joined students from the .change program to search for native species along the ravine, with a waterfall in the distance.

A moment to learn and to understand our connection with nature from its roots, literally. We looked for small seedlings growing next to larger shrubs, carefully taking them while making sure their roots remained intact.

We collected a few, and soon they will grow in both their shared space in Casa Amaru and in each family’s land

We look forward to seeing these seedlings become shrubs that nourish the soil, provide shade, and feed birds. A reminder that nature thrives when we give it space and care for it, just as it cares for us.

15/04/2026

April 15… hmmm.
An important day.

A day we’ve somehow come to associate with the worst kind of deadline… tax day.

But for us, April 15 is something else entirely.
It’s Commitment Day.

The final day to apply for:
🌿 Unlearning Retreats
🌿 Summer Internships
🌿 Rehearsing Change (Fall 2026 semester)

Let’s move from forms we file to experiences that transform.
No refunds, we’re afraid… but we do promise a refind.

If you’ve been circling this idea, wondering if it’s the right time to refind yourself…
this might be your moment.

Apply today.
Or at least pause long enough to ask yourself why you haven’t yet.

08/04/2026

As we move into our last month of our Rehearsing Change spring semester, we look back at final projects from our class, Creative Conflict Transformation

👤In Mushullakta, students and community participants came together for a process rooted in courage, trust, and deep listening.

🫂 This semester, they chose to engage a complex and sensitive topic: substance addiction and its impacts on community life. It required vulnerability, honesty, and a willingness to sit with difficult realities, and they did so with care and bravery.

🍀 We are deeply grateful to everyone who was part of this journey.
A special thank you to our students, Maya and Alma, and to our community participants, Oscar and Germania, for their commitment and openness.

✨ We are also incredibly proud of the work of our community educators from Pintag, May and Edwin, and of the Pachaysana team—Sarah and Daniel Millaghe—who accompanied this process with dedication and heart.

🦋 As we move into the last month of our Rehearsing Change spring semester, we look back at the final projects from our class, Creative Conflict Transformation

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