Join Amazonian Communities in Creating a Sustainable Future
World leaders say that the Amazon is crucial to preventing climate collapse and maintaining a healthy planet. Will you donate now to support local communities as they lead the way?
World leaders say that the Amazon is crucial to preventing climate collapse and maintaining a healthy planet. Will you donate now to support local communities as they lead the way?
World leaders say that the Amazon is crucial to preventing climate collapse and maintaining a healthy planet. Will you donate now to support local communities as they lead the way?
For more than 8000 years, local peoples have stewarded and helped shape the Amazon, helping to create the thriving biome that we globally rely upon.
The Amazon plays a crucial role moderating climate change. It hosts more than 40% of the world’s tropical rainforests, composes more than 25% of terrestrial biodiversity, and has provided the source for more than 25% of all modern pharmaceuticals.
The continued impact of colonization, mining, gas and oil exploration, large scale agriculture and other activities, however, increasingly threaten the Amazon.
Here at VASI, we believe that with your support, local communities can lead and guide us to a bright and sustainable future.
Founded by local community members, VASI’s work is community-based, not project based. We are creating a model and network to support rural and frontline communities as they lead efforts to create a sustainable future. Our work has begun in the Amazon, and will expand to other parts of our globe.
Each of our programs and projects is led and designed by community members, and each program nurtures the others, helping build resilient communities capable of continuing their work to protect the Amazon and our world.
We work on health, on food, on education, on fishing, on conservation, and on climate change mitigation and adaptation. We work to support the future of local communities and the Amazon. From vaccine storage to cacao production, from river ambulances to education workshops, we amplify and support the work of our local leaders.
We collaborate with partners in Peru, Brazil, and other Amazonian communities, as well as with individuals, businesses, universities, and medical centers throughout the world.
Will you become a leader donating now to make a difference?
VASI enjoys 5013c status through our fiscal sponsor Utopia Foundation. All donations are tax deductible. UTOPIA Foundation covers, free of charge, many of the expenses of receiving donations and maintaining non-profit certification. As a result, each of your donations has a greater effect. To avoid all transaction fees, you can send us a check at Utopia Foundation, 123 W. Front Street suite 2B, Traverse City, MI 49684. Please, write VASI in the notes or Memo section.
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