CACE volunteer Clayton Douglas sorting hand made guitar straps woven by native artisans from the Peruvian Amazon. Coming soon to the Amazon Forest Store (www.amazonforeststore.org).
Check out our most recent video that explains the philosophy and motivation for the Center for Amazon Community Ecology handicraft project working with native and campesino artisans in the Peruvian Amazon.
Center for Amazon Community Ecology handicraft project in Peru
Center for Amazon Community Ecology founder and executive director Campbell Plowden presents a brief introduction to the organization and its program to deve...
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This is Yermeth Torres - an artisan from the campesino village of Chino on the Tahuayo River in the northern Peruvian Amazon. She is one of the talented artisans who weaves chambira palm fiber into beautiful decorative baskets colored with natural plant dyes. Buying these baskets helps provide a source of sustainable income for artisan families like Yermeth. CACE social rebates from craft sales have helped build a new bathroom for the school, buy medicines, support chambira reforestation and finish construction of the artisan cooperative building.
— Products shown: HANDMADE CHAMBIRA PALM FIBER BASKET - WB425 - WOVEN BY ARTISAN FROM PERUVIAN AMAZON.
Maybe one way to improve our standard of living is to improve our standard of loving. I love this picture of a Bora native girl from the village of Brillo Nuevo with her baby sister.
Check out the interview that Jason Crane did with CACE director Campbell Plowden discussing CACE's work in Peru and the craft sale coming up in State College, PA this Sunday.
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The Morning Mixtape: Campbell Plowden talks about the Center for Amazon Community Ecology, a nonprofit that works with local artisans in Peru to provide economic opportunities. Plowden will be speaking and selling crafts at the Friends Meeting this Sunday at 611 E. Prospect Ave in State College. He'll speak from 9:45-10:45 AM, and the craft sale runs from 12-4 PM.
Campbell Plowden will discuss CACE's work with Amazon communities tomorrow morning Friday, Dec. 16 at 8am (EST) on 98.7 FM in State College, PA - livestream online at: 987thefreq.com. Campbell will be interviewed by Jason Crane - host of the Morning Mixtape - central PA's only progressive morning show. Listen live or check it out later on their blog.
Tuesday, Nov. 29 is Giving Tuesday. Please support CACE's work with native communities in the Peruvian Amazon with a donation to us at: www.AmazonAlive.net. The Gates Foundation will provide a 50% match to online donations made through GlobalGiving as long as matching funds last. The clock starts at 12:01 am so please donate early to multiply your support. This photo is Loidi - daughter of the artisan Doris Nashnato from the village of San Francisco on the Maranon River in Loreto, Peru. CACE has begun working with artisans from this community to increase the diversity, volume and quality of their crafts.
One of CACE's closest allies is Robin van Loon and Camino Verde - the group he founded to promote reforestation in the southern Peruvian Amazon. We have worked together to plant rosewood trees in one of our partner native communities and are exploring how to market a joint line of aromatic essential oils. Robin and Campbell are members of the board of directors of both groups to foster this cooperation. Please support our work with a donation on Giving Tuesday, Nov. 29 at www.AmazonAlive.net. The Gates Foundation will provide a 50% match to donations made to us through GlobalGiving on that day as long as matching funds last. The clock starts at midnight on Nov. 29. Thanks for your support.
Happy Thanksgiving to all. Last month CACE held an Artisan Leadership workshop with our partner Minga Peru. We had our artisan friends make giant egrets as part of an exercise in creating new products and working in teams. Please support our work with a donation on Giving Tuesday, Nov. 29 at www.AmazonAlive.net. The Gates Foundation will provide a 50% match to donations made to us through GlobalGiving on that day as long as matching funds last. The clock starts at midnight on Nov. 29. Thanks for your support.
The Center for Amazon Community Ecology wants to help connect Amazon artisans to people from around the world. Every handicraft has a rich story about the people, plants and place that it came from. Please support our work with a donation on Giving Tuesday, Nov. 29 at www.AmazonAlive.net. The Gates Foundation will provide a 50% match to donations made to us through GlobalGiving on that day as long as matching funds last. The clock starts at midnight on Nov. 29. Thanks for your support.
CACE has learned to sustainably harvest copal resin and distill it to produce a high value essential oil. This will help forest people in the Peruvian Amazon a way to make money from the forest without harming it. Please help the Center for Amazon Community Ecology support native artisans in Peru on Giving Tuesday, Nov. 29 at www.AmazonAlive.net. The Gates Foundation will provide a 50% match to donations made to us through GlobalGiving on that day as long as matching funds last. The clock starts at midnight on Nov. 29. Thanks for your support.
Our friend, Italo Melendez, collaborator of CACE, gives us a brief explanation on the work of Inventory that was carried out at the Centro de Investigación de Jenaro Herrera - CIJH (Jenaro Herrera Research Center) directed by the Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonia Peruana - IIAP (Peruvian Amazon Research Institute).
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Helping artisans isn't just about improving their weaving skills - it's also important to help them build trust between them and us. Please help the Center for Amazon Community Ecology support native artisans in Peru on Giving Tuesday, Nov. 29 at www.AmazonAlive.net. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will provide a 50% match to donations made to us through GlobalGiving on that day. The photo below was taken during the first day of the Artisan Leadership Program that we organized with our partner NGO Minga Peru in late October.
We continue with the research work at Copal. On this occasion we made the transfer of bowling from one tree to another at the Centro de Investigaciones de Jenaro Herrera (CIJH) run by Instituto de Investigación de la Amazonia Peruana (IIAP).
The action of a weevil, a member of the beetle family (Coleoptera), is normally responsible for the formation of resin masses in these trees. The process begins when a female places her egg inside the cortex. When hatching, the larva eats the inner crust and causes the liquid resin to escape into the outer crust which is known as a bolus.
The objective of this research is to know the adaptation and survival of the weevil by changing it, observing the results over time.
CACE was a vendor at the 2016 Great Insect Fair - an annual event sponsored by the Penn State Univ. Dept. of Entomology to educate the public about many aspects of insects and other bugs. It included exhibits of pollinators, edible bugs, pests, and just plain cool critters. CACE featured many of our insect ornaments hand-made by campesino artisans from the town of Jenaro Herrera on the Ucayali River in the Peruvian Amazon.
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