Dos Corrientes began on a wind-swept hillside overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Manabí, near a poor village of 385 people subsisting on rice and fish. Two Canadians came here years ago, bought 20 hectares of land with a gorgeous view, kept returning year after year, and in 2021 came to Ecuador for full time residency. The only economic industry in this remote area is fishing, and these two expats wanted to develop an ecological and organic model of self-development to benefit

“Helping Kids in Ecuador” has supported over 650 children in need all over Ecuador, providing medical help, hope, and healing to children in need since the start of the group in Salinas in 2011. Mary and Tod Freeman were in Salinas when they saw a jar with a few coins in a small café that had a sign saying “Please help”. An expat had the idea to try to collect some donations at the cash register for a little girl who needed a very complicated bowel surgery. Her mother, a wait