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| The People |
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Amazon rainforest peoples benefiting from secular existence are rich in knowledge of the ecosystem they inhabit, the flora, fauna and evolution patterns of an environment they know only too well. And yet, their remoteness and at times isolation puts them at the very bottom of the reach of health programs, of aid programs, of attention to empower them to reach their own goals and aspirations as done elsewhere in the development of more easily connected peoples
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| The Environment |
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The Amazon rainforest is a vast system that, in addition to the richness of its peoples, brings us an ecosystem incredibly rich in natural resources and the planet's largest source of fresh water. Its vastness covers several countries and forms of government that makes it all the more difficult to enact changes from the perspective of any broad external developmental support
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| The Governments |
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Whether because of lack in sustained support or lack of excellence in implementation of programs - but more pragmaticaly, due to the enormity of the task - government bodies have not been able to reach the end goals so many times attempted of bringing the advances of health knowledge to the reach of these Amazon rainforest peoples. For it is through the gains attained by public and private institutions in fighting disease profiles that life expectancy has steadly increased for populations throughout the planet ... but inevitably only for those within physical reach of new discoveries in healthcare delivery
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| The Organizations |
| When faced with the enormity of a task, whether on a personal micro-cosmos or in the realm of corporate and government programs, it is collaboration of ideas and actions that enable goals to be achieved. The organization of efforts is the sharing of knowledge - from focused acquisition, to proper management, to efficient transfer - as per the goals of a group. It is thus when a solution is thought by the people and for the people that sustained progress is achieved. In the Amazon rainforest, new and existing organizations have structured their actions to reach a balance in the protection of their lands, in the equality of their genders and in their capacity to improve healthcare delivery |
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| OUR AIM |
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| The Basics |
| A sustainable solution exists only when it is enacted by the people and for the people through knowledge. It is then the empowerment of peoples that will lead to sustainable development. While empowerment through knowledge is the vehicle to sustainability, when remoteness and isolation come into play the geographies of support all but lead to barriers for empowering these peoples |
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| The Components |
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Our promotion of empowerment through knowledge happens in two different yet inseparable components of the development picture; (a) eliminate the distances through knowledge transfer about the use of ICTs, and (b) make it possible a knowledge pool otherwise inaccessible leading to improved health conditions
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The Needs
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The survival of ethnicities and languages is tied to land ownership, environmental protection and the promotion of increasingly improved health conditions. It is however this latter need of proper health that will enable the individual to protect, control and responsibly act on their lands and environment, to assure them of their reproduction and human continuity. The health needs are then tackled as (a) the need for improvements to health care delivery and (b) need for promoting health education able to be replicated and further developed through generations to come
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| OUR ACTIONS |
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Improvements to healthcare delivery are targeted at those actions capable of enacting further gains from their own results. As such, it is infant mortality and maternal health the focus of actions - their positive results will feedback right into their own peoples for improved life conditions throughout the spectrum of land, environment and peoples. The actions aim at empowering Amazon rainforest peoples by exercising knowledge transfer through specific projects
These Participatory Development Projects are:
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√ utilization of ICTs in the establishment of telehealth networks
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√ development of adapted health surveys and data collection procedures
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√ ICTs & health surveys reducing infant mortality & maternal health rates
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√ empowerment in ICTs toward inclusion in global agenda for development
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In a nutshell ___________________
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strengthening capacities of individuals, communities and native
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societies towards community-driven development !
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