Taking $10,000 Cash To Green the Driest Barrio in Bolivia

I’m carrying $10,000 in physical cash across international borders to Bolivia. To most people, this sounds like an insane security risk—but for the community we are working with, it is the only way to save their project from a hidden economic crisis.

In this video, we travel to the high-altitude drylands of Bolivia to deliver this funding directly to a group of incredibly resilient displaced women. They are doing the seemingly impossible: transforming a dusty, arid mountain barrio into a thriving, lush food forest, all without access to running water.

We explain exactly why a standard bank transfer would have lost nearly half the value of these hard-earned funds, and show you the reality of ancestral ecological engineering in action.