It all started with Neil’s friend Annie jumping out of an airplane in 2011. She won an amazing trip to the Ecuadorian Amazon Rain Forest and asked Neil to join her. During that time they worked with a tribe called the Waorani delivering technology workshops to pupils at their local community school. This trip saw them work with Waorani students creating video projects to bring awareness around who they are, how they live and the importance of where they live - right on top of one of Ecuador’s biggest oil deposits. Because of where they live, they have been under threat from the oil companies since the mid 1980’s.

After the success of the 2011 project Neil returned to the Ecuadorian Amazon Rain Forest to deliver a three week project. In December 2013, he travelled back to deliver three separate projects with pupils from three schools located in three different communities over three weeks. He returned to work with the Woarani tribe as well as the Napo and Sani communities of the Kichwa tribe.

The main focus this time was to deliver curriculum content and materials to our Amazonian pupils that will give them involved knowledge, lifelong skills and confidence, increasing their capability to identify, plan and participate in and to build technology based projects.

Neil partnered up with schools here in the UK and arranged Skype calls with them from the Rain Forest. This meant that the curriculum was brought to live by having a direct link and the possibility to communicate with tribes directly!

Now, in December 2014, Neil is back to deliver yet another project: he is working with young people from the Anangu community. This year the project focus is on river pollution.
We have had some amazing backers of the project who helped greatly to get it off the ground. Thank you so much for your contributions!

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