The Earth Education Project journey begins in Nicaragua, in the La Chureca community- the capital's municipal trash dump.
Working together with Juntos Contigo (http://www.juntoscontigo.com/), an education centre founded by dutch and nicaraguan students, Earth Education Project will be installing a recycling system and a small garden together with curriculum for the youth and adults of the community.
Follow the story: setting up a project and following a vision to provide communities with new ways to grow; gaining new skills learning from nature together with fellow community members, artesans and gardeners.
The Beginning:
Recycling and Environmental studies are tough subjects to encourage students to study, and that is when it begins with 'where does our trash go?'...What happens when it starts with the students and community living on a trash dump?The Earth Education Project is about hands on learning, providing new skills, and access to hope and new ways of thinking and living through Education. Education is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty and what better teacher to have than the environment that surrounds us.
Participants are of all ages between 9 and 57 years old, living in the La Chureca commmunity. They began by signing up out of interest to learn new skills: artesan techniques with recycled trash and how to look after and grow a vegetable garden. These promotion points are the key components of the program but include a range of subjects such as conservation, nutrition, alternative energy, and community development. After the first two and a half month course participants will not only be given a certificate but will also have developed talent, new skills, and learnt ways to work as a community to better their environmnet and look after our planet.
So where do we start?
