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: 2026 and Beyond
Clean Water for Communities Facing Persistent Water Insecurity
As our work has evolved, one reality has become unequivocal:
without dependable access to clean, safe drinking water, no community can achieve lasting health, dignity, or economic stability.
Our next phase of work focuses on communities where water insecurity has persisted despite decades of effort—places where conventional infrastructure has proven insufficient, impractical, or repeatedly failed.
Canadian Indigenous Communities with Long-Standing Water Challenges
Across Canada, many Indigenous communities—particularly in northern and remote regions—continue to live without reliable access to safe drinking water. Long-term advisories, aging or unsuitable infrastructure, and geographic isolation have created conditions where water access remains uncertain, costly, and fragile.
Dos Corrientes will apply a water-first approach informed by applied science and engineering to support solutions that function independently of centralized systems. Our work focuses on water systems designed for northern and remote environments—capable of operating where traditional infrastructure struggles, and developed in collaboration with communities to support durability, local stewardship, and long-term resilience.
Ecuador — Water Scarcity and Water Contamination
Coastal Ecuador — Chronic Water Scarcity
Many coastal communities rely on irregular and expensive trucked water for basic household needs. Through air-to-water systems enhanced with advanced nanomaterials, Dos Corrientes is developing solutions that produce clean drinking water using only sunlight and ambient humidity—reducing dependence on external supply chains.
Amazonian Ecuador — Severe Water Contamination
In parts of the Amazon, decades of oil extraction, mining activity, and industrial runoff have compromised rivers and groundwater sources. Families often have no alternative but to use water contaminated with hydrocarbons and heavy metals for drinking, cooking, and agriculture, with profound consequences for health and livelihoods.
Dos Corrientes is advancing field-deployable water technologies designed to operate in these complex environments—pairing clean water access with community-informed strategies that support health, food security, and economic participatio
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