PROJECT AMAZONAS INC
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Mission Statement
Project Amazonas is a Peruvian/USA non-profit, non-sectarian, and non-political organization dedicated to humanitarian, conservation, and educational activities in the Peruvian Amazon region of South America. We are dedicated to improving the lives of the indigenous and other peoples living in remote areas of the Peruvian Amazon through regular and sustained medical programs, as well as through community level education and sustainable development initiatives. Project Amazonas actively conserves the biological resources of the Amazon in three rainforest reserves that it operates. With the cooperation of local communities, these reserves are used to promote ecological and ethnological research and education activities by Peruvian and foreign scientists and students. Our objective is nothing less than improving the lives of the people of the Amazon while conserving the biological riches and functionality of the Amazon rainforest.
About This Cause
As we move into 2025, we continue focusing on ensuring the sustainability of our programs to assist the people and the natural environment of the Peruvian Amazon. During 2020 and 2021, our focus was on providing Covid-19 relief to clinics and communities in the Amazon which has been hit particularly harshly by the pandemic. For more details, please visit our website (www.projectamazonas.org). As part of this effort, we conducted a Community Health Worker training workshop in September & October 2020 in partnership with Wired International (www.wiredinternational.org), and have conducted workshops for over 60 community health workers in July 2022 and July 2023. We were able to re-initiate our medical service trips in 2023 and 2024 once post-pandemic travel to Peru opened up again, and have several service trips scheduled for 2025. Project Amazonas has operated in the Peruvian Amazon since 1994. Apart from a handful of Peruvian employees, the organization is entirely volunteer-operated. We pay no staff, rent, or overhead in the USA (apart from required legal/financial filings), so nearly 100% of donated funds go directly to projects and programs in the Amazon. We seek to serve the needs of both the environment and rural populations in the Peruvian Amazon by engaging in the following activities: 1) Annually operating 8-12 boat-based free medical campaigns to various tributaries of the Amazon and Napo Rivers 2) Operating biological field stations and forest reserves in the region. These are available for use by courses, researchers, students and ecotourists, and are also used as sites for health and environmental workshops for local communities. 2b) In late 2022, we took on the management and operation of the Tapiche Reserve, a very remote site 400 km south of Iquitos which has a particularly abundant mammal community, including 13 species of primates. Its remoteness and history of protection (since 2012) means that animals are not afraid of humans, and will allow close approach. In 2025 we are working at obtaining formal conservation and protection status from the Peruvian government, with field work taking place in February 2025. 3) Operating a primary care clinic on the Orosa River which serves as the primary clinic for some 10 campesino and indigenous communities. 4) Supporting field research and courses by/for Peruvian university students, who often lack the opportunity to do field work. 5) Assisting with provisioning of necessary supplies to rural schools. 6) Actively reforesting degraded areas at our field stations, and working with local land-owners to reforest their own land. For visitors from outside of Amazonia, we regularly provide logistics and expertise for academic courses of all levels (middle-school to graduate and teachers courses), for teachers, volunteers, researcher and also ecotourists, whose contributions help to maintain and finance our Peru operations. We are non-political, non-sectarian and non-discriminatory, and we welcome qualified volunteers and interested parties from all backgrounds. Naturally, some level of Spanish ability will greatly enhance any visitors experience.