Well-distributed blue and green dots across the Ecuadorian Amazon. That is what we saw when we looked for a map of health facilities coverage in the region. We were brainstorming on how All Eyes on the Amazon (AEA), a program that works to protect the Amazon by defending Indigenous peoples’ rights, could support a Covid-19 […]
About Hivos Hivos is an international organization that works for a world where people can realize their full potential, unleashing their ingenuity and creativity to build fair, just and life-sustaining societies for themselves and generations to come. Our mission is to amplify and connect voices that promote social and environmental justice and challenge power imbalances. […]
Thanks to the financial support of The Rockefeller Foundation, this initiative will improve access to Covid-19 care for 339,000 inhabitants from 23 Indigenous peoples and local communities in the Ecuadorian, Peruvian and Brazilian Amazon. In the Amazon, COVID-19 represents an increasing threat. The lack of access to health services and the limited response to the […]
Peru Country Coordination – All Eyes on the Amazon (AEA) and the Amazon Indigenous Health Route (AIR) programs You can access the full terms of reference on this link. About Hivos Hivos is an international non-governmental humanist organization. Together with local and global partners, the organization seeks to contribute to a free, fair, and sustainable […]
Hivos is selecting a professional to join the Team of the All Eyes on the Amazon and the Amazon Indigenous Health Route Programs as Program Manager (PM).
Open call for Brazil Country Coordinator for the All Eyes on the Amazon and the Amazon Indigenous Health Route programs.
In the state of Maranhão in northern Brazil, a forested area, the village of Caxias was rapidly turning into a large cattle-raising center. It wasn’t long before cattle ranchers and farmers started clashing with the Timbira Indigenous peoples who inhabited the forest. So the ranchers hatched a plan to get rid of them. “The plan […]
Consultancy for the ALEP, Guate Diversa e Inclusiva and Adelante con la Diversidad II projects.
Relying on the school meal program in Bolivia
“How can I help these children get better and healthier food?” Estefanía Rada remembers asking herself this back when she was working as a volunteer teacher at local schools in La Paz, Bolivia. The children in her classes, aged 7 to 10, would eat breakfast at school, thanks to the government’s school meal program.
The Ebook is available in Spanish, Portuguese, English and French. The Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin – COICA, a strategic partner of the All Eyes on the Amazon program, seeks to undertake a management model in the Amazon territory that further promotes the involvement and participation of the youths and connects them […]
This is a glimpse into a prejudiced, rural, and non-inclusive Nicaragua which is at the same time diverse, courageous, and resilient. LGBTIQ activist Jacob Ellis tells us the story of Yasuri Potoy Ortiz, a young trans woman.
Prior to the start of COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, the Brazilian government had budgeted for R$ 1,43 billion (€ 225,115 million) for ordinary expenditures to be allocated by the Special Secretariat for Indigenous Health (SESAI), within the structure of the Ministry of Health, and R$ 495,6 million (€ 74,463 million) for the National Indigenous Foundation […]