Fundación Origen is a nonprofit organization founded in 1991 in CHILE dedicated to holistic social transformation through education and agroecology.
Its main projects include the Pirque Agroecological School, the Natural Sanctuary Los Maitenes, the Origen Farmers Market, The Bodhisattva training and the Virginia Subercaseaux School. In times of need or disaster, Origen activates its relief programs for food and housing. All of these initiatives are interrelated and share the objective of providing concrete tools for generating individual, social and environmental transformation.
Origen credits its growth as an organization to its open and compassionate response to a changing world, its commitment and deep care for all living beings and its willingness to engage in horizontal dialogue with several stakeholders across multiple projects. Each year, Origen directly impacts 600 children and thousands of families through all its programs and, thereby contributing to a more peaceful and equitable world.
Your support helps Origen to:
- Keep developing the Origen Farmers Market , which supports hundreds of small businesses and artisans from all over the country and enriches the vocational training of our students with "Production, processing and commercialization of healthy food" courses.
- Increase the capacity of the Agroecological school by buying more land and building classrooms for 200 additional younger students.
- Restore agricultural land and forest, protect flora and fauna in the Natural Sanctuary of Río Claro, Origen´s second campus where local communities are inspired to preserve their land, practice agriculture and beekeeping in sustainable ways.
- Preserve and promote agro ecological seeds through the creation of the Origen Seeds Bank.
Fundraisers
Let's help those who lost everything in the fires in Chile!
Fundación Origen goes to the aid of rural families who have lost everything in the recent forest fires. With your contribution, we can help them recover their means of subsistence: their crops, tools, equipment, their animals... Everything on which their way of life depends. There are many important non-profit organizations that today, along with the Chilean government, are focused on rebuilding the houses of thousands of families who have been left homeless in these terrible fires. However, the rural families have lost much more: not only their homes, but also their crops, animals, beehives and equipment that make up their livelihood. Fundación Origen has been supporting the regeneration of the rural world in Chile for more than thirty years, and today we want to focus our effort precisely here... So that these families can overcome this tragedy and move forward without delay. Our goal is to support at least 50 rural families who need: - Water pumps. - Irrigation systems. - Tools and safety equipment. - Seeds. - Bee hives. - Chickens. - Sheep. - Fencing materials. Among others... Setting up each family will cost upwards of 2000 USD, but every dollar counts. Help us with your donation! These rural families are waiting for us.
- Raised
- $620
- Goal
- $100,000