At Dos Corrientes, we know the challenges of building an NGO from the ground up—because we’ve lived them. Our leadership team brings decades of entrepreneurial experience, having built successful businesses and a thriving nonprofit through six years of hands-on work in coastal Ecuador. We’ve confronted the real obstacles that stop most new NGOs before they begin: community trust, financial sustainability, program design, cultural understanding, and on-the-ground execution.
From coastal Ecuador to Indigenous communities across the Amazon—and soon, to communities in Canada—we are breaking the cycle of poverty by delivering clean water, food security, education, and opportunity where they are needed most. 
Now, we are sharing everything we’ve learned—because the world needs more NGO founders who understand how to create real impact where it matters most. Our educational programs are built on lived experience, not theory, and are designed to prepare the next generation of leaders to work in the toughest environments on earth.
This work has never been more urgent. Across the Amazon and other oil-affected regions, families drink, cook, and bathe in water poisoned by crude-oil pits, wastewater ponds, and mining runoff. Children grow up surrounded by rivers laced with hydrocarbons and heavy metals. Illness, miscarriage, cancer, and multigenerational trauma have become part of daily life—not because communities failed, but because their environment was taken from them.
Our flagship course, Beyond Theory and Books: A Founder’s Real-World Guide to Starting, Surviving and Scaling an Impactful NGO, equips emerging leaders with the tools, mindset, and field-tested strategies needed to confront challenges like these—clean water, environmental injustice, and systemic poverty—with skill, confidence, and purpose.
If you’re ready to understand how real change is built—one community, one system, and one courageous founder at a time—this is where your journey begins.