Project Ix-canaan – Guardians of the Rainforest

Project Ix-canaan’s mission is to empower the local community to protect their own rainforests from destruction. Founder Anne Lossing tells us…

“I have been running this project since about 1995. We identified the needs of the community in order to preserve their rainforest, and those needs are health, education and opportunity. The idea that we had was to be able to support the people to become guardians of the rainforest because these rainforests are not going to be saved by people from Oslo, or Alberta, or Washington or someplace like that – the rainforests here will be saved by the people who live here in the rainforest. So since those were the three major necessities, first with the medical clinic, then we started a library and a computer room and, at about the same time, we opened the women’s center.”

If you’d like to find out more about how you, too, could help to improve the quality of life and health for the people of El Remate, please check out our volunteering page and donating page – or just drop us an email to say hi (we always want to hear from you!).