The Board of Directors of Alliance for Cultural & Economic Exchange, Inc. has been overjoyed and honored to receive  grants of $3,000 from the Association of Ecuadorians in New England (AENI) yearly since April 2007 to support secondary education for the school children of Rio Blanco community, Napo Province, Ecuador.

Community Classroom

Since September 2003, AlliancExchange has been bringing school supplies to Rio Blanco.  In October 2004 we presented our first grant of $1500 to be used to support secondary education and other needs of school children and their families in the Rio Blanco community.  Since then we have been awarding $1500 annually to Rio Blanco for the growth and development of their next generation of emerging leaders.  AENI’s grants have allowed us to begin to pursue our larger dream:  that every child in the rainforest has the opportunity to pursue and complete his or her secondary education.