In the final instalment of the NextGen International project, with support from our charity partner Hivos, Indigenous young people living in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest write how they stood up to energy and oil giants who want to decimate the jungle for profit.
Here, student and campaigner Alexis, shares his account of how he mobilised a major youth campaign which stopped a hydroelectric company from installing a dam on a sacred river...
As a child, my friends and I would walk for hours towards the head of the river in search of the best lagoons to dive in and the best rapids to ride.
