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¡Amigos! A Partnership for Education is a program of the Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research (ACEER) Foundation. The ACEER Foundation was founded in 1991 to promote Amazon rainforest conservation by fostering awareness, understanding, action, and transformation. We accomplish this by facilitating the development of environmental education programs, supporting basic and applied research, and acquiring unique tracts of primary rainforest land. Through these actions, the Foundation strives to provide both environmental and economic benefits to the native people living in the Peruvian Amazon region.
The ACEER Foundation has been promoting environmental education in rural rainforest regions of Peru for almost a decade. In 1998, the Foundation expanded its programs to include the award winning JASON curriculum, which focused on interactive rainforest ecology conservation and Internet training. Since then, the Foundation's efforts have broadened ever more, and now include teachers and community members in the urban areas of Iquitos and Puerto Maldonado. To date, more than 500 teachers have participated in ACEER Programs, which have received numerous commendations from Peruvian education officials.
The ¡Amigos! program was developed in an effort to promote and facilitate knowledge, conservation, and stewardship of the rainforest, and as a means of creating dynamic educational partnerships among US and Peruvian schools, businesses, and community organizations. Ultimately, its goal is to develop environmental awareness and understanding and foster sustainable use of natural resources in the Peruvian Amazon.
The Amazon Center for Environmental
Education and Research (ACEER) Foundation is a U.S. 501 C (3) and registered
Peruvian nonprofit organization founded in 1991.
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For more information on ACEER and the product
catalog visit www.aceer.org.
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