DONATIONS
EPICA is currently entirely funded by individual contributions. While our volunteers are working on grant applications and other sources of revenue, we depend on whatever contributions you can make. 100% of donations go to our programs in the Amazon, and currently none of the funding is used to pay our volunteer staff in the United States. Your contributions go a long way!
IN-KIND DONATIONS
Money is not the only way that you can make a contribution to our work! We have many tangible, continuing needs for the community, the school, and other programs. Our list is always changing, so if you have something you can donate, even if it’s not listed below, please email us at info@epica.earth.
- all-terrain wheelchair
- Spanish-English dictionaries
- white board
- dry erase markers
- tablets
WHY EPICA
You would be hard-pressed to find an organization where your dollar can go further towards making a difference to not only individuals and families, but the world at large. Your investment in EPICA helps support and sustain the economic development of Indigenous communities directly. This in turn allows them to remain in their ancestral home, the Amazon rainforest, defending it from incursions of oil companies, extractive industries, and other forms of environmental destruction.
WHY THE AMAZON
The portion of the Amazon rainforest where the Achuar live is likely the single most biodiverse ecosystem on the face of the Earth. 20% of the planet’s oxygen is produced there, as the over 400 billion trees of the rainforest absorb over 86 billion tons of CO2, hence why the Amazon is referred to as “the lungs of the planet”. This rainforest is also responsible for stabilizing the world climate, maintaining the planetary water cycle, containing one fifth of the world’s fresh water, and more than 50% of the world’s 10 million plant, animal, and insect species.
WHY YOU
YOU are the person we’ve been waiting for! As one of our Achuar leaders said during a team meeting: “To be alive is to ask the question: What do I do? What CAN I do–for the world and for humanity?” Your stand in solidarity with our Indigenous brothers and sisters of the rainforest is one answer to that question, and we need your support.