Uno a Uno

Uno a Uno is a not-for-profit foundation in Cotacachi, Ecuador*, and is a project of Rose Charities Canada (a registered Canadian charity that is 100% secular, and non-political), with the goal to serve Cotacachi and its surrounding communities by providing free English classes to children and adults, free tutoring services to children, and affordable conversational Spanish classes to expats.

We have named our project “Uno a Uno” because it is Spanish for “One by One”. This expression directly references the project´s tagline of “Serving the Developing World One Person at a Time”. By emphasizing “service” as the aim and action of our project, we will strive to help our clients with a personalized approach, one client at a time.


We propose to reduce the poverty of Cotacachi residents and promote community unity through the provision of education initiatives to all three groups of Cotacachi residents: the North American expats, the Mestizo peoples, and the Indigenous peoples. Affordable conversational Spanish classes will be offered to the expats in a social, classroom environment, where a part of the fees for these classes will be used to subsidize the free English classes and free tutoring services being offered to the Indigenous and Mestizo children of the central Cotacachi area, and the nearby Indigenous communities.

Expats will be encouraged to volunteer by teaching English classes to the Mestizo and Indigenous children and adults. Local Cotacachi Mestizo and Indigenous peoples will be encouraged to volunteerby providing tutoring assistance to the children. The natural consequence of the offering of educational programs to all three groups and the encouragement of the mutual provision of services between the groups will be the development of inter-group relationships and the creation of a more unified community. This is due to the groups having all intermingled from learning together, and volunteering to help one other.

*(we are in the process of registering our foundation)