The cynical take is that any environmental project asking for help just wants money.
The honest take is that we want money — and a bunch of other things too.
Here's the full list, in roughly the order of usefulness:
Money
The first prototype is budgeted at under €2,000. We're looking for:
- International grants (foundations, environmental orgs)
- Paraguayan corporate sponsors who want to attach their name to something real, not greenwashing
- Individual donors
If you can connect us to any of the above, that's nearly as valuable as donating.
Time
- Cleanup days
- Install days
- Ongoing monitoring (for people in Asunción who can show up regularly)
- Workshops with the upstream communities
We will find a job for you. We have more work than people.
Expertise
We have specific gaps:
- Hydrologists — river flow modeling, sediment behavior, flood prediction. We have intuition; we need data.
- Anthropologists / sociologists — the upstream community is the actual lever for behavior change. We need help understanding them, not just lecturing at them.
- Engineers — structural, marine, mechanical. Whatever broke at the rowing club, we want to not break.
- Communications and storytelling — we need to talk to people who currently throw trash in rivers, not just to people who already agree with us. That's a different skill.
Contacts
Anyone in environmental ministries, foundations, university programs, or comparable projects worldwide. Especially people who've already done what we're trying to do. We'd rather copy you than reinvent you.
Honest critique
Tell us what we're doing wrong. Tell us what we're missing. Public, in writing, on the record. We mean it.
If you're in Asunción and want to help, contact us.
If you're not in Asunción but you have an Antequera, copy us.
If you're somewhere in between, send this to whoever you know in either category.
That's how a tide builds.