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Art 55. The forest, our greatest treasure

Juliana Miranda was born and raised in the community of San Francisco de Pachijal, northwest of Quito, in the Chocó region of the Andes. Juli is the youngest of 14 children. At the age of 22, no one has been able to convince her of a conventional education, since she values nature, the forest, as a real school instead of a university. Her participation in the pilot research project on basic income shows how it has been used to advance her life's projects: to consolidate the handicraft production of natural cosmetics from the richness of the forest and to take care of a place of conservation and environmental tourism in her homeland. Today, she is supported by her family, who, together with her community, are proud of the path she has chosen.