After meeting with the Canadian embassy in Quito Monday morning, BUILD members Cristina, Cami, and I and our contact at Libraries Without Borders (LWB), Kat, flew to Loja that afternoon and drove to Los Encuentros the morning after to meet with Lundin Gold, a Canadian mining company that operates there. Los Encuentros is a parish in the province of Zamora Chinchipe, which is essentially where the Andes end and the Amazon begins. I reached out to Nathan Monash, a Tufts alum who runs the company’s corporate social responsibility efforts, last fall to see if Lundin Gold would be interested in funding a KoomBook program in Ecuador. Throughout the rest of the school year, BUILD and Lundin Gold remained in contact and arranged this two-day visit to Los Encuentros as a way of exploring a partnership.
BUILD Latin America
