
Our three aid organizations for the protection of the tropical rainforest are united under the umbrella name AMAZONICA: INDIO-HILFE e. V. (1982), Stiftung AMAZONICA (2007) and AMAZONICA Akademie gGmbH (2015) OUR PROJECTS We do what needs to be done. When it was founded in 1982, “we” were Mascha Kauka, her husband Uli Pohl, family, and

Local elementary schools are particularly important in indigenous territories. Schools built in traditional style, airy and cool under their thatched roofs. Not “cages” with four walls and tin roofs, as built by the state. AMAZONICA has already built such indigenous schools in many places. Now we are working with new villages on other rivers, and

Who wants an ugly and expensive plastic boat when the most beautiful dugout canoes grow in their own forest? AMAZONICA promotes the revival and preservation of indigenous cultures in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest. Here, the Achuar felled a red cedar tree and carved it into a large canoe according to ancient tradition: 7 meters long and