Alan Bolt

Nicaraguan biologist, physicist, anthropologist, healers and yakukama (water keeper in quichua languague). He went to Ecuador with all the strength of the Central American volcanoes and the peace of its lakes to strengthen its environmental initiatives. He collaborated with several environmental and womens networks to understand their work as a commitment to defend life. He founded the Centre integrating Social Therapy and Nature, located in a primary forest that he help rescue from deforestation. Through his work women learned that they are part of a living organism that shelters and created human beings as a way of life. He worked with them to promote their participation, their autonomy, self-esteem, and recognition as complete beings. He also supported the Consejo Nacional de las Mujeres del Ecuador (CONAMU1) to develop their national policy about rural women and conservation of the environment.

The Consejo Nacional de las Mujeres is the national authority for the advancement of women created in Ecuador in 1997, in accordance with the agreement signed at the Beijing Conference for Women, 1995.
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