Basic information
Experience
Sleep
Impact
Start collaboration:
2018
Directly impacted families:
35
Indirectly impacted families:
12
Project description
Situated deep within the Amazon rainforest, Amupakin is a women-led birthing center focused on traditional midwifery practices. Conserving indigenous birthing methods that were practiced for centuries until the arrival of Western medicine, Amupakin helps women with natural, vertical births through traditional tools and techniques based on ancestral wisdom handed down for generations, including plant medicines and chants. The center also offers traditional steam baths and traditional medicine to both men and women, as well as the opportunity for tourists to stay at the center and learn about Kichwa culture and gain a deeper understanding of the forest. The homestay experience grants the center economic sustainability, so that it can continue to train women in traditional Kichwa midwifery practices and preserve their indigenous culture.
Travelers visiting Amupakin can enjoy an indigenous homestay experience as well as local meals and nature tours, where they can learn more about traditional midwifery practices and indigenous culture.
Involvement of V Social
Supported by the VSocial Foundation since February 2019, Amupakin has been able to obtain its community tourism certification. In addition, VSocial has helped the center to strengthen its product for tourists, as well as providing technical and administrative training and workshops.
Start collaboration:
2018
Directly impacted families:
35
Indirectly impacted families:
12
Your impact
Archidona
Country: Ecuador
More than 35 families directly benefit from this community project by providing services such as accommodation and other tourist-focused natural, cultural and ancestral experiences, with another 12 families benefiting indirectly through the supply chain. But by combining community-based tourism with a traditional midwifery birthing center, Amupakin has a much wider impact, offering employment and training to prevent young people leaving the area in search of opportunity and by preserving indigenous Kichwa practices.
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