Amazon Guardian Schools Network. Since 2016 we have connected classrooms, teachers and Indigenous communities of the Juruá valley with European schools.
The Escola Intercultural Amazònia (EiAmazonia) links Indigenous schools in the Amazon with European schools through the Amazon Guardian Schools Network, where they share knowledge, run projects and learn together. EiAmazonia is also a learning platform, a resource centre and an awareness-raising tool for climate justice and global citizenship. Its educational work fosters relationships of respect and care between people, peoples and nature.
EiAmazonia is the educational project of the Associació Guardians de l’Amazònia. In Catalan, Spanish and European schools we run educational workshops and organise visits by Indigenous leaders.
At the same time, we train Indigenous teachers and promote projects that strengthen culture, language and community through our training and workshops in the communities. Schools on both sides connect by videoconference, and part of the training takes place online.
This website offers material for teachers and pupils to research and bring the Amazon into the classroom: documentaries, our perspective, the peoples and the projects carried out over ten years of work with the Puyanawa people.
We are preparing an online course platform with training by our teachers, our team and external collaborators.
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The network brings together 11 schools: 9 in Europe, since 2017, and 2 in the Amazon, the Escola Ixubãy Rabuī Puyanawa and the Nukini Escola Pedro Antônio de Oliveira. Letters, videoconferences, classroom projects and visits by Indigenous leaders.
Educational workshops for schools in Europe and in the Amazon, the bilingual storybook in Catalan and Puyanawa, the card game «Rol Guardians» and the workshop presentations.
Twelve curated documentaries, eight talks by Indigenous voices, our own documentary, still in progress, the first album by the Puyanawa people, the «Poble Puyanawa» exhibition and press coverage since 2016.
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The guardian peoples of the forest, the Puyanawa people, their rights and the perspective we work from.
22 Indigenous educators on scholarships for a 52-hour course, a satellite connection at the school, ethical use of artificial intelligence and environmental workshops with 200 pupils (2025).
Our projects told in detail: what was done, who took part and the tables of expenses and funding.
“The Network grows with you” campaign
A monthly contribution, however small, lets us plan the school year without depending on a grant.
Amazon Guardian Schools Network
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The map gathers the schools that have been linked to the AGSN: some take part now and others did so in earlier school years, through gatherings, workshops or visits from Indigenous leaders.
In the Amazon, Indigenous schools combine formal education with the transmission of languages, memory, culture, a relationship with nature and community organisation. Their work responds to the reality and priorities of each community, linking generations, territory and new educational tools.
Many carry out this work in contexts of geographical isolation, difficulties with access and connectivity, a lack of context-specific teaching resources and few opportunities for ongoing teacher training. In some villages there is barely a school, or a single teacher for all ages, and to carry on studying children have to leave the community.
In Catalonia and elsewhere in Europe, schools also face the challenge of educating in an interdependent world. Exchanges allow students and teachers to explore collective rights, interculturality, global justice, biodiversity, prejudice and our relationship with nature, technology and the community.
The Network builds links between students, teachers, Indigenous schools in the Amazon and schools in Europe. Its work combines teacher training, workshops with students, videoconferences, exchanges and the creation of both its own and shared teaching materials.
Each collaboration is adapted to the priorities and context of the participating schools and communities. It does not seek to transfer an educational model or a single vision from one territory to another, but rather to help knowledge, experiences and questions flow in both directions.
One word
“More than a friend: a part of me in you and a part of you in me.”
In the Huni Kuin language. It was born in the Alliance of the Peoples of the Forest, when Indigenous peoples and rubber tappers, until then set against each other, recognised one another as kin and chose to defend the forest and their way of life together. Today it is the greeting that opens everything we do, and the idea that runs through the story we take into classrooms: “We all depend on one another: half of you lives in me and half of me lives in you.”
The association was founded in 2016 and the educational project began in 2017 with a collaboration between the Escola Ixubãy Rabuī Puyanawa and various schools in Catalonia. Building on this partnership, activities with students and teachers, school exchanges and teaching materials have been developed, followed later by teacher training and the educational use of technology.
The collaboration with the Puyanawa people continues and opens a new phase of expansion towards the Nukini community and the Escola Estadual Rural Indígena Pedro Antônio de Oliveira. This process is unfolding gradually, in line with the community’s own priorities, decisions and educational reality.
Three ways in for schools: workshops in the classroom, joining the Network and ready-to-use materials.
Five workshops for primary and secondary school: the Amazon and nature, interculturality, the environment and screen use.
Becoming a Guardian school: a commitment by the school to the Amazon and its Indigenous peoples, with exchanges and video calls with Amazonian schools, shared projects, workshops and support throughout the school year.
The story «Els Puyanawa i l’Eruga de colors – Hêda Cêkaya», the card game, the exhibition, the materials made by Indigenous teachers and much more, co-produced with the communities and the schools.
The «Povo Puyanawa» exhibition, the illustrated story, the Puyanawa people’s album and the documentary under way were all born of the same bond that holds the Network together.
“The Amazon is home to more than 400 Indigenous peoples and around 2.2 million Indigenous people, with an extraordinary diversity of languages, knowledge, cultures and ways of relating to the land.”Science Panel for the Amazon · Amazon Assessment Report 2021
Supporters, volunteers, schools, Indigenous communities, professionals, institutions and companies can take part in the Network in different ways. Explore the ways to collaborate and find the one that best suits you or your organisation.
