Celebrating Women
As March closes we want to celebrate… US!
Carishina hopes to embody all the values that make us great as we embrace everything that helps us move forward in learning and exploring the world!
Mama Rosita Colta at San Luis de Otavalo Hospital
Mama Rosita Colta is a midwife at the Hospital in Otavalo, she is also a community leader who founded the women's collective Pacha Mama near Atuntaqui. These women’s collective objective is to preserve ancestral traditions among women of Otavaleño descent. We had the opportunity and gift to meet them and have them perform a limpia and blessing ceremony for us. We also shopped directly from them handmade eucalyptus rubs and other natural medicines.
Hilda Labrada Gore & Gabriela Romero at the Bee Farm
Gabriela Romero is the owner of Bee Farm near Machachi, the farm is between 3 volcanos, one of them called Corazón ( heart). She welcomed us to learn about the healing spirituality of bees. Gaby has more than 20 years of experience as an apiculturist and an expert in ecological tourism. Being exposed to her experience certainly leaves us with another perspective of life. She is certainly Queen Gabee.
Nancy Masapanta & Hilda Labrada Gore at 12,000 feet in Limpiopungo Lagoon, Parque Nacional Cotopaxi.
Meeting Nancy Masapanta was a crazy coincidence! We needed a guide to Cotopaxi and we had been meeting a trail of amazing women during our summer experience trip. Coincidentally she was available to take us that day and our lives were changed. She has been escalating the Andes for 20 years now and she knows has all the wisdom the mountains will teach one when in their presence. I cannot wait to come back and hike with her again.
Hilda Labrada Gore & Susana Rodríguez at Huerto de la Luna, Santa Cruz, Galápagos.
Susana Rodríguez is a farmer at Huerto de la Luna in Isla Santa Cruz Galápagos, she is part of the Red Guardianes de la Semillas. When we met her, she overwhelmed us with the kindness that only farmers can have to give to others. She took us around their vegetable plot which is around an acre that includes herbs, mushrooms, roots, seeds, trees, and crops of all sorts among the most amazing ones. We were able to learn growing and preserving techniques from them.
Hilda Labrada Gore at Barrio de la Merced, Quito.