Semeando o futuro. /Sowing the future
To promote, amongst the youth and the community, through theoretic and practical workshops, the importance of preserving the environment and of living in peace with the semi-arid setting.
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Field of Work
environment
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Year project started (or projected start date) (yyyy)
2009
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What is the primary problem your venture is trying to address and how are you addressing it (or planning to address it)?
My project’s goal is the environmental awareness of communities in rural settlement areas, especially the Muxuré Velho settlement, in the City of Quixeramobim. I will work more specifically with youngsters, who have an important mobilisation role in society, in the search for a better relationship between the community and the (semi-arid) environment where they live.
Name Your Project
Semeando o futuro. /Sowing the future
Describe Your Idea
To promote, amongst the youth and the community, through theoretic and practical workshops, the importance of preserving the environment and of living in peace with the semi-arid setting.
Innovation
Project Description
To promote, amongst the youth and the community, through theoretic and practical workshops, the importance of preserving the environment and of living in peace with the semi-arid setting.
Unique and different
We are current living in an “SOS Planet” era. This indicates, therefore, that either we take care of the planet today or tomorrow will not be possible. In light of that and of the responsibility in considering tomorrow today, I understand this project is not necessarily innovative, but something of conscious for the society, especially for the Brazilian semi-arid region. It is different because it is in a situation where very little is done for the semi-arid environment to this end, to preserve our forests and animals. The problem in the future will not only be the melting down of glaciers that will lead coastal city dwellers to the countryside, but also the warming of areas that have already been suffering form it for a long time, the dry areas that suffer from deforestation, wildfires and lack of water.
Project plan
1 – Promote brainstorming sessions to allow youngsters in the communities to articulate their views, with visits to schools, Church, neighbours’ associations, etc. 2 – Promote the first theoretic workshops where the participants will make an environmental diagnosis of the community and verify what environmental problems experienced affect them more directly. 3. Promotion of (field) practical workshops, after the problems are identified, we will visit the settlement and verify the priority order of the environmental problems detected. 4 Practical workshops – following the field workshops and the awareness of the community’s environmental problems, we will develop with the youngsters actions to try to address these problems. 5. Development of the practical activities to remedy the environmental problems identified by the youngsters, for example: replanting of species of native flora, this action can be made in association with state and municipal environmental organisms. 6 – Promotion of the results of the project and discussion rounds with the community to present the solutions found by the youngsters for a better semi-arid ecosystem for the settlement
Partnerships
Brazilian Institute for the Environment (IBAMA), State Secretariat for the Environment (SEMACE). Dom Helder Camara Project. Centre for the Protection of Human Rights – Antonio Conselheiro. Municipal Government of Quixeramobim. Catavento Comunicacao e Educacao Ambiental (NGO). The partnerships will take place through links with the Community Association of the settlement, as well as with the youngsters by means of workshops.
We’ll be strengthening the role of these entities towards social responsibility and respect for the environment.
Impact
Impact
Better awareness within the community about the environmental problems and therefore a general social improvement.
Effectiveness
The community as a whole, especially the youth, so that the latter can start to appreciate the environment where they live and be critical and conscious of their role in society in the future.
How do you engage the community and how does it respond to your project? (500 characters)
The project focuses on teenagers. But the goal is that the community can gain awareness through these youngsters.
How do you engage and impact the community?
The project focuses on teenagers. But the goal is that the community can gain awareness through these youngsters.
How do you measure this impact?
The impact of this project in the community should have great repercussion, because the ecosystem of the semi-arid region is being increasingly destroyed, and the community in general has not yet woken up to the need to preserve it.
Obstacles
Taking the knowledge and practices developed by these youngsters, through contextual education, to all other settlements in Quixeramobim. In addition to that, another way to increase the impact of this project is by strengthening the activities targeted at the youth by fostering critical thinking and a better awareness of their role in society.
This Entry is about (Issues)
Sustainability
Financing source
(or how do you expect your initiative will be financed)
As the project requires more human than financial resources, we will look for partnerships with companies (private or otherwise), public organisms (federal and municipal) in the environment area and the Quixeramobim municipal government. In addition to that, we will aim for partnerships with companies active in the corporate social responsibility arena.
Aside from financial sustainability, how do you plan to grow and sustain your project?
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Finance details
Conservation area set by IBAMA. Venue for training. The team is formed by 8 people. Youth articulator. Environment articulator. Culture Articulator. Education Articulator. These comprise 2 people.
Creative funding
Collection of gifts in the community for charitable raffles; green book (a book that would be circulated in the community, for the community to donate what it could to collect funds for future campaigns), charitable games with activities that foster cooperation between people, donation of financial resources of services by entities and companies.
Other non finance needs
People willing to participate as volunteers for the benefit of the whole. Support by entities that work with the proposal of the project and that are willing to be partners in this idea.
The Story
Motivation
Because I have lived more than 20 years of my life in a rural settlement zone situated in the Brazilian semi-arid region, and have always felt closely the effects of destruction, wildfires and global warming that are already a reality in the semi-arid region of Ceará, I feel obliged to develop something that will allow today’s children and youngsters to build a new semi-arid region. For this region not to turn into a deforested, dry, unproductive one. But rather for fruits that can feed the soul of each of those who search in the soil their dreams and wishes for a better life to flourish amongst thorns.
Awards
None.
Broader context
In being a project that involves environmental and human education with the role of strengthening the conservation of the environment and a focus on children and youngsters who live in the community. They will transform and multiply the individual social role in society (sic), conserving today for tomorrow.
Ongoing
With local partnerships and projects that contribute to this winning initiative and strengthen it.
What is your age?
23
How did you hear about this competition?
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