Cultural Strengthening Centers number FIVE and SIX are finished and number SEVEN is just getting started!

What began with a single idea in the Amazon has continued to grow—one community, one partnership, and one Cultural Strengthening Center at a time.

Today, Centers in Santa Maria de Fatima, Manati Zona I, Rafael Belaunde Zona II, Timicuro I Zona, Llachapa, and Sucusari are now open and serving their communities.

And the journey continues.

This year, we’re excited to add another chapter: a new Cultural Strengthening Center in Primero de Enero, our third Center along the Napo River.

But these Centers are more than buildings. They belong to the communities they serve. Each one is guided by a local committee made up of teachers, parents, community leaders, and students—ensuring that the Center reflects the hopes, needs, culture, and dreams of the people who call the community home.

From three students with an idea in 2013 to a growing network of communities working together today, the journey has taken us farther than we ever imagined.

Sucusari

Population - 150
Students - 35
Initial - 13
Primary - 22
Secondary - none

  • "Yesterday a dream...today a reality! Soon we will be inaugurating our "Cultural Strengthening Center" in the community of Santa María de Fátima. This educational project aims to promote reading and environmental conservation. through recreational activities. The road was very hard to find help, many did not believe in our initiative, doors were closed to us, but we made it!!!... thank you, EKOAMAZON, noble-hearted friends, community authorities, parents and the educational community by H.M. of Fátima...Soon the story will be told by its own protagonists." - James Pasmimo Escobedo

  • It all begins with an idea.

  • Because of the dreams of Santa Maria de Fatima, we are now building our more Cultural Strengthening Centers!

Llachapa

Population - 170
Students - 96
Initial - 13
Primary - 19
Secondary - 64

  • "Yesterday a dream...today a reality! Soon we will be inaugurating our "Cultural Strengthening Center" in the community of Santa María de Fátima. This educational project aims to promote reading and environmental conservation. through recreational activities. The road was very hard to find help, many did not believe in our initiative, doors were closed to us, but we made it!!!... thank you, EKOAMAZON, noble-hearted friends, community authorities, parents and the educational community by H.M. of Fátima...Soon the story will be told by its own protagonists." - James Pasmimo Escobedo

  • It all begins with an idea.

  • Because of the dreams of Santa Maria de Fatima, we are now building our more Cultural Strengthening Centers!

Manati Zona l

Population - 230
Students - 160
Initial - 28
Primary - 63
Secondary - 69

  • "Yesterday a dream...today a reality! Soon we will be inaugurating our "Cultural Strengthening Center" in the community of Santa María de Fátima. This educational project aims to promote reading and environmental conservation. through recreational activities. The road was very hard to find help, many did not believe in our initiative, doors were closed to us, but we made it!!!... thank you, EKOAMAZON, noble-hearted friends, community authorities, parents and the educational community by H.M. of Fátima...Soon the story will be told by its own protagonists." - James Pasmimo Escobedo

  • It all begins with an idea.

  • Because of the dreams of Santa Maria de Fatima, we are now building more Cultural Strengthening Centers!

Rafael Belaunde Zona ll

CENTRO DE FORTALECIMIENTO CULTURAL

(CULTURAL STRENGTHENING CENTER)

Population - 200
Students - 40
Initial - 10
Primary l - 15
Primary ll - 15

  • "Yesterday a dream...today a reality! Soon we will be inaugurating our "Cultural Strengthening Center" in the community of Santa María de Fátima. This educational project aims to promote reading and environmental conservation. through recreational activities. The road was very hard to find help, many did not believe in our initiative, doors were closed to us, but we made it!!!... thank you, EKOAMAZON, noble-hearted friends, community authorities, parents and the educational community by H.M. of Fátima...Soon the story will be told by its own protagonists." - James Pasmimo Escobedo

  • It all begins with an idea.

  • Because of the dreams of Santa Maria de Fatima, we are now building more Cultural Strengthening Centers!

Timicuro l Zona 

CASA DE LA CULTURA

(HOUSE of CULTURE)

Population - 126
Students - 55
Initial - 12
Primary - 19
Secondary - 24

  • "Yesterday a dream...today a reality! Soon we will be inaugurating our "Cultural Strengthening Center" in the community of Santa María de Fátima. This educational project aims to promote reading and environmental conservation. through recreational activities. The road was very hard to find help, many did not believe in our initiative, doors were closed to us, but we made it!!!... thank you, EKOAMAZON, noble-hearted friends, community authorities, parents and the educational community by H.M. of Fátima...Soon the story will be told by its own protagonists." - James Pasmimo Escobedo

  • It all begins with an idea.

  • Because of the dreams of Santa Maria de Fatima, we are now building more Cultural Strengthening Centers!

Santa Maria de Fatima 

Population - 230
Students -
Initial -
Primary - 58
Secondary -

  • "Yesterday a dream...today a reality! Soon we will be inaugurating our "Cultural Strengthening Center" in the community of Santa María de Fátima. This educational project aims to promote reading and environmental conservation. through recreational activities. The road was very hard to find help, many did not believe in our initiative, doors were closed to us, but we made it!!!... thank you, EKOAMAZON, noble-hearted friends, community authorities, parents and the educational community by H.M. of Fátima...Soon the story will be told by its own protagonists." - James Pasmimo Escobedo

  • It all begins with an idea.

  • Because of the dreams of Santa Maria de Fatima, we are now building more Cultural Strengthening Centers!