Educate Ecuadorian Children to Face Global Warming
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Summary
We provide resources, training and hands-on opportunities to create awareness and teach children about conservation in the Galapagos Islands and poor areas of Quito, the most polluted city in Ecuador.
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Since Arcandina Foundation developed a successful environmental educational program based on the enter educate and multimedia approach the project will combine video programs with childrens workbooks, training for school teachers, and entrepreneurial initiatives for conservation development for children, schools and the communities, reaching 20.000 children, 100 teachers and 50 schools in the Galapagos Islands and poor areas in Quito, the highest polluted city in Ecuador.
Activities
- Develop 20,000 work books for children
- Develop 100 environmental multimedia educational schools kits
- Develop 5 training for teachers
- Produce 6 educational TV programs
- Develop 2 conservational projects
- Create a network with eco-chi
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $975
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $29,025
Total Funding Goal: $30,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
Educational material models will be donated to the Minister of Education for massive reproduction to give to public schools. The Arcandina foundation will be expand their schools network to continue with a long term educational process.
Project Message
Im a young who loves your video programs, my actittudes and life changes when I sow this kind of programs, and I began to care the nature, actually you help me to growth.
- Roger Buenaño, Ecuador, Beneficiary
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on July 28, 2008.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on November 09, 2006.
Latest Update from the Field
Educating Children to Face Global Warming
By Pablo Palacios - Project Manager, July 28, 2008 06:53 PM
Whit the documentary "El Cambio Climático en el Ecuador" (The climate change in Ecuador), the program We seed the Furute, reached more than 100,000 children in several provinces in Ecuador, through a strategic alliance with de Ministry of Education.
In 2008, the project has expanded to working with young people.
The project makes a initiative with te trained people in order to promote the commitment with the environment, to paint a giant canvas with traces of hands, actualy we have more than 700 meters of canvas.
In june, 2008, the President of Ecuador, Ec. Rafael Correa, put her trace of and in the canvas. Attachments:
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