Sustainable Bolivia is a NGO based in Riberalta, the heart of the Bolivian Amazon. We focus our work on sustainable community development and conservation actions.
Our volunteers have the opportunity to live and support our work at the Aquicuana Reserve and it's surroundings. This area of incredible biodiversity is located about 20 kilometers from the city of Riberalta in the Beni Department of the Bolivian Amazon. It is home to Lake San José, the plant-medicine retreat center Pisatahua,
and two rural communities: San José and Warnes. Its name, Aquicuana,
comes from the Tacana native language, meaning ‘land of the giant
trees.’
There we promote initiatives to support education, scientific research, community development, regenerative agriculture and conservation actions.
We provide a open space for the community called "Comedor" where volunteers have internet access so that they can prepare and develop activities with the community. We also offer a Research Station and (depending on
availability) accommodation in the city of Riberalta if volunteers want to visit, shop or go out during the
weekends.
In Bolivia, the environmental awareness is very low. It is very common to see trash all over the streets and in the nature, to see people throwing up plastic bags off the car or bus. No one educates people on why this would be bad and what would be the consequences for them, directly.
This is why Sustainable Bolivia had created in an environmental education program with around 70 children motivated by the idea of having a cleaner school and community. We also have launched ecological workshops in orphanages around recycling, cleaning up and creating and managing a small garden and compost.
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