Providing the tools, services, and start-up capital that allow rural resource-users to thrive in tandem with biologically important ecosystems.

We promote regenerative systems that restore and build rather than exploit and destroy. From farmers to fishers, to savings/loans and community grants, we believe in unlocking the potential for positive contributions for communities and nature. Regenerative livelihoods are about viewing the goal of net-zero carbon emissions as a stop-off on the longer journey to create the conditions for life to flourish resiliently and renew infinitely on our planet.

People living in rural areas are often faced with extreme poverty. Limitations in access to business knowledge, skills, social capital, financial literacy, and to equitable capital perpetuate this issue. As a result, rural communities can often not start sustainable, income-generating activities and are caught in the vicious cycle of poverty.

We provide services that equip people living in tandem with biodiverse ecosystems with the resources to strengthen livelihoods and access to start saving groups, providing training, mentoring, small grants, and access to financial institutions and markets. Each governance institution we support has these financial services within them, highlighting the interconnectedness between local communities, circular economies, and ecological security.

 

USD $155,000

Total funds saved in cooperatives to support local regenerative economies

Financial inclusion and Resilience

106

Health ambassadors across 14 conservation cooperatives

Healthy Family Initiative

475

students registered in literacy programs in West Kalimantan

education and Literacy