🇵🇾Paraguay

In a slum built beside Asunción's largest landfill, children play violins made from oil cans and cellos made from packing crates.

Founded to track Paraguay's vanishing birds, this NGO now owns and defends the largest surviving fragment of the Alto Paraná Atlantic Forest against fire, drug crops, and settlers.

After weeks of wildfire smoke blanketed Paraguay in 2024, an engineer and a women-led coding community launched the country's first AI air-quality forecast for Asunción, open source and free on Telegram.