About us
Wiñak began its activities in 1996 in the Archidona canton, Napo province, made up of Kichwa farming families who saw an opportunity to value local products. In 2002 they established that fine aroma national cocoa is one of the main chakra products, which had a niche market.
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With the progressive increase in cocoa production, they saw the need to associate and establish a union that represents them, this is how the Wiñak Agro-Artisanal Association was born on July 29, 2010.
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Wiñak is an autonomous and community organization under private law, non-profit, whose purpose is to improve the living conditions of its associates, especially women and young people, managing to merge producers, society and nature.
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Wiñak, which translated into Spanish means "Development and Progress", reflects the feelings of small Kichwa farmers surrounded by the Sumaco, Napo Galera and Colonso Chalupas Biosphere Reserves.
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Wiñak strengthens its production, organization and marketing system, through training processes, technical and financial assistance, to find special markets where our products, conditions and local production system are considered and valued, thus managing to reduce intermediation and at the same time protect natural resources.
Our way
2010
With sustainable and associative business ideas
Wiñak begins his legal life
2012
We find strategic allies
We received the facilities where our headquarters would be.
2016
With the aim of guaranteeing a clean, healthy and sustainable production
We achieved the NOP, EU and National organic certifications.
2017
In search of creating opportunities
We diversify the marketing lines with the plantain and cassava value chain.
2019
with clear objectives
We expanded the marketing lines with the guayusa value chain.
2020
Ancestral medicine in times of COVID19
She was the protagonist of the health and life of our partners, avoiding stopping production.
2020
2022
For the conservation of bio diversity
We promote the production of vanilla and native bees.
2021
Being responsible with the environment
We built a forest nursery for the diversification of the chakras.
Mission
Offer families and people a long life through its healthy products, produced in the chakra by the communities of the Amazon.
View
To be a benchmark company
fair trade and the economy
circular, contributing to the growth of communities.
Our Policies
ENVIRONMENTAL
Promote clean and sustainable production among associates, through the implementation of environmentally friendly practices that conserve natural resources and local biodiversity, while maintaining the traditional production system (chakra), thus preserving culture , identity and worldview.
SOCIAL
Ensure that the production obtained on the farms contributes to the agri-food chain of the producer and their families, and guarantee that they have access to education, health, basic services and community well-being.
GENDER AND
GENERATIONAL
Promote the effective participation of women in development components, to reduce the inequality gap that favors the social and economic autonomy of women in the family nucleus.
Design and implement actions that promote the conservation of culture, ancestral practices, customs, solidarity, support for a dignified life for people with abilities
SYSTEM
OF THE
CHAKRA
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