A CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATION CREATED BY TRAFINO

An organization dedicated to the conservation of Ecuadorian rainforests where tagua seeds grow wild and to improving the living conditions of collectors, artisans, and everyone who is part of the Tagua value chain.

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OUR COLLABORATIONS

In 1999 we built a neighborhood of 142 houses for our workers, employees, and associate producers.

In 2000 we opened a childcare center where mothers working in the tagua industry could leave their children under the care of professional assistance during their working hours.

Also in 2000, we built Villa Alegre Elementary School for the children of our workers and neighbors. Villa Alegre had the country’s highest quality standards where, for seven years, we educated almost 150 children with state-of-the-art pedagogic systems. Every day, the students received a mid-morning snack with milk and a nutritious lunch at noon, besides all their school materials.

FOREVER LUNG has and continues to carry out several projects with The United Nations Small Grants Program, The German Cooperation (GIZ), The Global Environment Facility (GEF), the IRD (French Institute of Research for Development), The Ministry of Environment and other government institutions and Organizations to strengthen and support tagua collecting communities, artisans, protect forests and biodiversity and take care of tagua palm trees. FOREVER LUNG also participates in various research programs with national and international researchers and is a member of the HOT PALM project.

Trafino devotes 10% of the company´s profit to a «social-enviroment aid fund»

"Allowing forest inhabitants to live off what the forest produces, such as tagua nuts, directly impacts and reduces the conversion of wild land".

Francisco Luna
founder of TRAFINO

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The Ecuadorian Ministry of Environment granted Trafino the “Distintivo Iniciativa Verde” (“Green Initiative Award”) for promoting the conservation of rainforests through a sustainable management of tagua.