A Model for Breaking Poverty, Built From the Ground Up
Dos Corrientes exists to create real, replicable solutions for rural and Indigenous communities. For six years, we worked inside one coastal village—Liguiqui, Ecuador—to understand poverty from the inside out and to build a model that families can sustain themselves.
We don’t deliver charity.
We build capability, confidence, and community leadership.
What We’ve Accomplished
The Liguiqui Model: Six Years of Measurable Impact
Our work in Liguiqui has produced a field-tested approach that strengthens a community through:
• Backyard and small-plot gardens that give families fresh, healthy food right at home.
• English education that expands opportunities in tourism, higher education, and employment.
• Entrepreneurship training that helps youth and adults turn local skills into income.
• Community partnership, built through years of presence, listening, and co-creation.
• Sustainability through local leadership, as programs are increasingly led, delivered, and managed by community members and local institutions who carry the work forward long after we step back.
This model has been recognized internationally.
The University of the Fraser Valley invited us to build a university-level course based entirely on the Dos Corrientes experience—a testament to the power and credibility of our work.
Beyond Theory and Books: A Founder’s Real World Guide to Starting, Surviving and Scaling an Impactful NGO
Born from our six-year journey in Liguiqui, this 12-lesson interactive course teaches future leaders how to launch and grow an NGO using real field experience—not textbook theories.
It covers:
• vision creation
• real-world research
• funding models
• leadership and sustainability
• building community trust
• impact measurement
• and the full Dos Corrientes model from concept to field implementation
Where We Are Going Next
Clean Water for Communities in Crisis
As our poverty alleviation model matured, one truth became impossible to ignore:
Without clean water, no community can thrive.
We are now expanding our work to address the two major water crises affecting Indigenous families:
1. Coastal Ecuador — Water Scarcity
Many Ecuadorian communities depend on expensive truckloads of. Our supercharged with nanomaterial Air-to-Water solutions offer clean water powered only by sunlight and humid air.
2. Amazonian Ecuador — Water Contamination
For decades, crude oil pits, mining waste, and industrial runoff have poisoned rivers and groundwater. Families bathe, cook, and irrigate with water laced with hydrocarbons and heavy metals. Illness, miscarriage, and cancer are tragically common.
Dos Corrientes is stepping into this crisis now.
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