Douglas Daly, Ph.D., Curator, Amazonian Botany, New York Botanical Garden. William Meyer, Arts Consultant. Joe Weiss Monica Whelan 4. Volunteers Amanaka'a was founded by volunteers and had no paid staff for years. Today volunteers are still an essential part of our operations.
Volunteers are the backbone of our outreach campaigns.
From tabling at street fairs to designing the postcards we flood Brazil with, volunteers are involved in every aspect of Amanaka'a. Below is a more extensive list of the ways our volunteers support the peoples of the Rainforest. If you want to explore how you can help, please click here . Our volunteers leaflet, staff info tables, do clerical work, word processing, database entry and programming. They translate and interpret Portuguese and other languages.