Casa Suaya Community Workshops – La Esperanza

 

Living roots that strengthen rural community life

 

🌱 A shared learning space

 

At Casa Suaya, we continuously develop a community-based learning space focused on strengthening rural life and caring for the land. Through open and free workshops, we encourage the exchange between traditional knowledge and everyday practices that support family and community well-being.

 

The workshop approach is designed around the Kichwa language, music, everyday cooking, and knowledge of native medicinal plants, understood as living foundations for cultural transmission, health, and care of the territory. These spaces are conceived with flexibility, allowing additional workshops and areas of knowledge to be incorporated over time, according to community interests and capacities.

 

The gatherings aim to make better use of locally available foods, improve family nutrition, support healthy growth in children, and promote respectful and attentive care for older adults.

 

Participation of community elders and knowledge holders is encouraged, creating opportunities for them to share their understanding of the identification, cultivation, care, and responsible use of native medicinal plants, strengthening their living presence in homes and across the landscape.

 

Each workshop is an opportunity to strengthen family life, gain practical tools for everyday well-being, and collectively explore more conscious and supportive ways of facing life’s challenges.

 

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Responsible use and distribution of contributions

 

Contributions help ensure that the workshops remain open and accessible to all families in the community.

 

Resources are managed responsibly and in a balanced way, prioritizing learning processes, care of the space, and support for families so they can apply at home what is shared during the workshops.

 

Estimated allocation of resources:

 

• Facilitators and educational materials – 40%

  Support for local facilitators, working materials, instruments, utensils, and resources needed for each workshop.

• Space maintenance and basic services – 25%

  Energy, water, hygiene supplies, cleaning, and care of common areas, green spaces, kitchen, and firewood.

• Family practice fund – 20%

  Seeds, plants, utensils, or basic supplies to support practical application at home (food preparation, home gardens, medicinal plants).

• Project management and sustainability – 8%

  Follow-up, communication, audiovisual documentation, and strengthening of community networks.

• Community reserve fund – 7%

  Savings for future workshops, community gatherings, camps, and continuity of activities.

 

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Be part of this shared effort

 

Each stay, event, or contribution helps strengthen these community-based processes, allowing more families in La Esperanza to participate freely in spaces of learning, connection, and mutual care.

 

Every contribution, regardless of size, helps keep this project alive and sustain the shared work of knowledge transmission, community bonds, and care for the land.

 

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Community project in development

 

Casa Suaya – La Esperanza

Imbabura, Ecuador

 

A non-profit community project dedicated to strengthening rural life, community education, knowledge transmission, and care for the territory.