We want to move from photos and words to action: Cooperatives of the Americas invites the cooperative movement and its allied organizations to join the campaign to support the community project being developed by Tranchichi Emberá Drúa Multi-Service Cooperative, indigenous organization located in the Emberá Drúa community, in the Chagres National Park, Republic of Panama.
A few weeks ago we visited this community and learned firsthand about its capacity to generate development in its territory, in the lead-up to our last regional meeting of the International Year of Cooperatives.
Likewise, in both Paraguay and Panama, we have listened to and accompanied Andrea Lino Machi, president of the indigenous cooperative, who has conveyed to us not only words, but the living example of a cooperative movement that builds and generates change.
The cooperative Tranchichi Emberá Drúa, promoted by the Panamanian Autonomous Cooperative Institute (IPACOOP), It reflects the institutional commitment to indigenous community care, the preservation of the territory, knowledge, and local development in Panama.
This community has inhabited the Panama Canal Watershed for generations and is recognized for its historical role in protecting forests, preserving cultural heritage, and promoting community ecotourism.
A project and an opportunity to support
Currently, the cooperative continues to promote key projects and actions in its community, especially by receiving visits from sustainable tourism, which contributes to generating small incomes and spreading the message of the strength of cooperativism as a natural model of community development.
Today, with all its leaders and the voice of its president, Andrea Lino Machi, it is investing to improve its facilities and reception capabilities, which indirectly also means:
- Achieving energy autonomy (installation of solar panels with the cooperative) CoopehGas),
- improve the midweek attendance of teachers who arrive to guarantee primary education to boys and girls in their community school,
- caring for and natural resources (traditional tambo, trails and access, water transport means, essential for community mobility, emergencies and tourist activities.
This will benefit, specifically and directly, 140 people in the community and positively impact other communities in Chagres National Park and contribute to the growth and strengthening of the area.
Let's join this solidarity project!
In order to contribute to this project, Cooperatives of the Americas seeks to bring together 10.000 USD to generate a seed fund that reflects our movement's commitment to indigenous communities and to cooperative action in the territories where we work.
Therefore, we invite everyone who visited the project, who met and spoke closely with Andrea, our cooperatives, federations, confederations, and allies in the region to join us by making donations to the following account:
INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS (DONATIONS)
Beneficiary: International Cooperative Alliance
Current account: 10000345625
National Bank of Panama.
SWIFT: NAPAPAPA
Intermediary Bank United States
Bank Swift Code: CHASUS33 // ABA 021000021
Bank Name: JP Morgan Chase Bank, NA
Account No. 0011-688-611
Final Beneficiary: Name International Cooperative Alliance. Account: 10000345625
The funds raised will be transferred in full to the beneficiary cooperative. Cooperatives of the Americas will guarantee the traceability and transparency of the process.
Once you have made the transfer, please share the receipt via email to membership@aciamericas.coop, accounting@aciamericas.coop. Include the following description on the receipt: “Emberá Drúa Donation AIC2025”.
“Cooperatives transform people’s lives” (José Alves de Souza Neto, President of Cooperatives of the Americas)
Let's support the Tranchichi Emberá Drúa cooperative
This project represents a concrete opportunity to put cooperative values into practice, strengthening solidarity, sustainable development and care for the Earth, with community commitment, by the native peoples.
We appreciate every contribution and gesture that helps make this project a reality.
