Teens Beyond Boundaries has created a strategic alliance
on this Award Winning Conservation Project with UCLA’s
Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment.
http://www.ioe.ucla.edu/CTR/index.htm

We are working with Dr. Jordan Karubian,
Latin America Director, who leads this extraordinary research
& development program designed to conserve
endangered species, slow global warming,
reforest important areas, and improve the wellbeing of local
residents in the Rain Forest habitat.
http://www.ioe.ucla.edu/CTR/IRTC_Ecuador.html

The Choco Rainforest is located in the Amazon Region in
South America. It is contained in northwestern Ecuador and
western Colombia.

The Only Permanent Solution

Improve the lives of the deeply impoverished
local residents so that they do not need the forests
to make a living for their families.

Protect the remaining forest.

Re-plant the damaged areas by using the highest quality
scientific research to protect the delicate eco-system.

Help and educate the disenfranchised children.
Proper education will help protect the forests,
and improve their lives.

UCLA’s Choco Rain Forest Program is a Model
Program. Once completed, it will be replicated all
around the World.

CACAO FARMING

Teens Beyond Boundaries has raised some
money to help them build their first proper
Green House to dry their beans.

We will raise more money to help them build several
Green Houses so that they can start making
good money for their livelihood.

Transportation: The farmers also need their own
means of transporting their cacao beans to buyers.

Currently they hire 3rd party transportation.
They have to pay them a lot.

Teens Beyond Boundaries is working on procuring
a flat bed truck for the farmers.

Improving Crops: The scientists from UCLA are helping
them improve their farming methods so that they can double
the yield without needing more forest land.

Marketing: Once a deal is made with a good chocolate
producing company, Teens Beyond Boundaries will also
help increase the demand for their chocolate by spreading
the word among the teen population to encourage their
parents & peers to purchase this specific chocolate.
More demand will translate into more money for these
poor farmers.

The teenagers’ ability to “influence” the marketplace will
be beneficial to these local farmers.

ECO-TOURISM

These Rainforests are beautiful, with incredible
animal and plant species. The local population
would like to build eco-tourism to get additional
revenue.

Teens Beyond Boundaries is working closely
with UCLA and the local residents to first help
repair and improve existing Eco Lodges, and then
help build new ones.

We will promote tourism by using our Website,
our Global Leadership Teen Network, and various
High Schools and Colleges around the world.

Note: We are using the guidelines set by the
United Nations for Eco-Tourism

EDUCATION

There are one-room schools that exist in several
of these Rain Forest communities.
These children need supplies and educational materials.
Dr. Jordan Karubian and his team are working on
training the teachers and bringing in
Graduate Students to assist in the teaching.

Teens Beyond Boundaries is initiating two programs:

1. To bring educational supplies to the schools, and
2. To take the message of the “Children of the Choco”
   to the world.

It is an innovative creative strategy that will provide
assistance to these children; and it will help educate
children worldwide about the plight of the rain forests
and its inhabitants … a photographic story told by
the “Children of the Choco”.

RE-PLANTING – REFORESTATION

1,000 native hardwood trees have been planted
along watersheds of four communities to-date.

Teens Beyond Boundaries will work closely with
the local scientists, as well as the professors at UCLA
to learn about proper re-forestation methods to maintain
the balance of the delicate eco-system.

A Program is being formulated with the Leadership
Teens in Ecuador to help in the re-planting efforts.

At last count there were 1.45 million
homeless children in the U.S!

These children often go hungry, suffer mental and
emotional trauma and face abuse. Homeless teenagers
are often alone, and particularly vulnerable.

According to experts when a child suffers trauma
their whole existence is threatened,
and the suffering is greater if the child feels alone.

As a teen-run organization we are dedicated
to helping homeless children,
with special emphasis on teenagers.

Teens Beyond Boundaries is working with organizations
that have comprehensive programs to help successfully
complete the transition off the street to a stable and
secure living environment.

To end homelessness by providing shelter, food and
counseling for the abuse, neglected and abandoned.

Our objective is to make these teens fully participate
as productive members of society.

We are helping to raise funds to help these
carefully selected organizations complete their work.

Our Leadership Teens also participate in group activities
to help some of the teens work through certain issues.

In 2009 Teens Beyond Boundaries has an innovative
strategy to work with Radio Stations and Businesses
to help homeless children across the country.

There are too many broken hearts.
These children live in hopelessness.
We must help them!