More courses and more resources are yielding major results for students in Ecuador

Posted Posted in Education, Poverty, Stories

Students at the Inta Kara Advancing Life Center in Ecuador are thriving and offering their gratitude for the valiant efforts of local students, teachers, and support staff. Read about the progress students are making, how Advancing Life continues to help improve community educational resources, and how it is impacting the lives of local families. More […]

Culinary classes help keep a family legacy alive

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When visitors enter the Imbabura Province in San Pueblo, Ecuador, they’re greeted by a cute restaurant whose name Puerta al Imbabura—means “gateway into Imbabura.” This family-owned business is run by 51-year-old Fabiola Quilumbaqui out of her own childhood home. Fabiola’s mother, a well-known fritada street vendor in her day, began a family tradition in the […]

Inta-Kara five years later: Opportunity takes root

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In the lush, fertile zone of Ecuador’s Intag region, agriculture flourishes. Economic opportunities, however, have been slower to take root. Much of the population lives at the poverty line and nearly half of all people depend solely on agriculture. With little opportunity for education or work, the rising generation has been pushed to larger urban […]

Expeditioners Hugh & Anne Jenings Saw a Great Need to Serve & Decided to Do Something About It

Posted Posted in Disaster Relief, Poverty, Rescue, Stories

ASEA Platinum Executives Hugh and Anne Jenings knew firsthand the effects of poverty and the need to do something about it because they had lived in Mexico, El Salvador, and Panama for years before joining the Advancing Life Foundation for its first service expedition. “We witnessed poverty on an up-close-and-personal-basis so when we heard about […]

Progress in Ecuador: Expedition Update

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After much fundraising and preparation, 30 selfless humanitarians set off to Quito, Ecuador with the Advancing Life Foundation and CHOICE Humanitarian to build a vocational school for the struggling Intag region. The trip was more than a year and a half in the making. Photo Slideshow With a mixture of excitement and anticipation, the group […]

Making a Difference

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All around the world, the ASEA Advancing Life Foundation is helping to break cycles of poverty, abuse, and suffering. We’re doing it through small-scale local service days, large-scale disaster relief, and on-site building projects. After Advancing Life’s first humanitarian expedition to Mexico, associates and corporate continued to band together. We raised $20,000 in two days […]