Tandana's Online Store
Welcome to Tandana's Online Store! Here you can purchase souvenirs from your Tandana volunteer trip to Ecuador or Mali, or buy unique gifts for family and friends. Proceeds go to the people who make the items and to The Tandana Foundation to support our work. If you scroll to the bottom, you can also pay your volunteer program fees. Shipping is included in the listed prices as well as a small service fee. If you'd like to pay by check, combine shipping for multiple items, and/or discuss custom orders, please contact us at info@tandanafoundation.org.
Show your spirit with a Tandana T-shirt!
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Fill your home with Andean music!
Our amazing logistics manager Vicente Pazmiño and his band Quena y Rondador are back at it again with their sophomore release "Asi Es Mi Tierra." A Tandana program is not complete without Quena y Rondador fueling our after dinner dancing. Take this opportunity to have their music in the comfort of your own home.
A charming gift for
children
Juanita the Colorful Butterfly, written by Segundo Moreta Morales and illustrated by Into Gualapuro and Luis Uksha, tells a charming tale of a butterfly who loses her color when a witch casts a spell on her. But all of Juanita's nature-dwelling friends help her to become colorful again. Told in Spanish, Kichwa, and English.
Vivid memories of your health care vacation
Tandana's health care volunteer vacation photo book contains 20 full color pages that visually tell the story of these magical trips to Ecuador. Complete with photos of the breathtaking volcanoes, incredibly beautiful countryside, villages we visited and services we provided.
Hand made by Cristina Fuerez.
Please select quantity at checkout.
Hand made by Cristina Fuerez.
Please select quantity at checkout.
These are delicate and finely embroidered by hand by Cristina Fuerez. Please select quantity at checkout.
She can put her special touch on blouses, towels, table cloths, table runners, and t-shirts. Please allow plenty of time for custom orders. Contact us at info@tandanafoundation.org.
Delicious recipes from our favorite cooking school
This cookbook was compiled by Claudia Fuerez, one of the owners of Tanana's favorite cooking school. It is a collection of recipes taught in their classes as well other traditional favorites, including Llapingachos, Carne Colorada, Quimbolitos, Empanadas de Yamor, Tortillas de Kinwa, Cuy, Fanesca, Colada Morada, and many more!
Gorgeous Photos of Mali and Ecuador
This set of 8 greeting cards contains 4 different images that represent Tandana's work in Mali and Ecuador. Even if you haven't visited both places, you'll still appreciate the beauty.
(back side)
Give a Gift that Changes Lives
Make a donation to Tandana in honor of your friends and family, and we'll send them a holiday card explaining your valueable gift.
$10 Parasite Medications for 12 children
This gift allows us to buy medications to treat 12 children in Ecuador for parasites through our Health Care Volunteer Vacation program. Parasites are the most common problem for our patients in highland Ecuador and prevent them from eating and growing properly. The one-pill treatment helps them develop healthily and live without constant pain.
$25 Medications to treat stomach bacteria for 3 patients
This gift allows us to buy medications to treat 3 people in Ecuador for h. pylori through our Health Care Volunteer Vacation program. H. pylori is a bacteria causing serious stomach infections that develop into stomach cancer, and its incidence in some parts of highland Ecuador can be as much as 80%. Patients must take a regimen of four different medications to treat the infection, but after they do they feel much better and greatly reduce their risk of stomach cancer.
$35 Classroom supplies for literacy classes in Mali
This gift allows us to buy slates and chalk for a class full of women in our Tommo So Literacy Program. For the first time, adult women have the chance to learn basic reading and writing in their native language, Tommo So, and, as they say, "step out of darkness into light."
$50 Fruit Trees
This gift allows us to buy fruit trees for an orchard in rural Mali. Orchards provide fruits such as papayas, bananas, guavas, pomegranates, lemons, oranges, and custard apples, that would otherwise be unavailable in villages. They offer dietary diversity as well as a source of income for schools and communities who care for the trees and grow the fruit.
$70 Books for literacy classes in Mali
This gift allows us to print literacy and numeracy books for women in Malian villages who participate in our literacy program. These books were the first developed in Tommo So, the native language of Wadouba Commune. For the first time, adult women have the chance to learn basic reading and writing in their own tongue and, as they say, "step out of darkness into light."
$100 School books and uniforms for one student
This gift allows us to provide the uniforms and books that an Ecuadorian secondary school student needs to continue her or his education for one year. Public schools in highland Ecuador do not charge tuition, but the many other required costs, such as uniforms and school supplies make it impossible for many children to attend school beyond sixth grade. This gift will help one student achieve his or her dreams.
$300 Full scholarship for secondary school
This gift allows us to provide a complete scholarship for an Ecuadorian secondary school student for one year. Public schools in highland Ecuador do not charge tuition, but the many other required costs, such as uniforms, books and supplies, and transportation, make it impossible for many children to attend school beyond sixth grade. This gift will help one student achieve his or her dreams.
$600 Half University scholarship for one semester
This gift allows us to provide 50% of the university fees and other costs that one student in highland Ecuador needs to study at an institution of higher education for one semester. Tandana's university scholarships provide half the costs, while the students work to pay the other half. Many bright students are unable to pursue higher education because they lack the economic resources and also have responsibilities to provide for their family’s needs. This gift will help one student achieve his or her dreams of becoming a professional and making a difference in his or her community.
Pay your volunteer trip fees online
Program Fees 2018
(price includes discount if paid by check)
- Deposit $500 USD
- Health Care remainder (1 week) $1150 USD
- Health Care remainder w/single room (1 week) $1300 USD
- Health Care remainder (2 weeks) $2400 USD
- Health Care remainder w/single room (2 weeks) $2700 USD
- Mali remainder $2100 USD
- Gardening remainder $850 USD
- Gardening remainder w/single room $1000 USD
