Colombia (completed)
Location: Bocas del Yi, Colombia
Date: December 2010-January 2011
Context: In a remote corner of the Amazon jungle, a boarding school for over one hundred native children regularly falls prey to paramilitary armed groups in the region, who come to recruit children to fight in their armies. With a promise of better living conditions, including a comfortable place to sleep (many have to sleep on the ground), some decide to join them.
Primary goal: To improve health conditions of children in a remote jungle boarding school.
Secondary goals: (1) To organize arts & crafts workshops for women and their children in a center for malnourished babies. (2) To raise awareness about the conflict and the living conditions of the indigenous peoples of the Vaupés region.
Fundraising Goal: $3500
Fundraising methods: (1) 2-week canoe expedition down a tributary to the Amazon River in complete autonomy. (2) Conferences and various fundraising events.
