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Trees and Education Protect Rainforest in Brazil

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Summary

Project educates farmers to restore Rainforest in Brazil with sustainable forest farming. They learn to preserve and recover the environment, water and wildlife, resulting in enhanced rural earnings. progress reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Farms in the Rainforest were opened with non-sustainable production methods that led to severe soil, water and landscape degradation, causing rural poverty and migration to cities. This project promotes knowledge and training on environmental conservation and sustainable development forest farming, for rural economic rehabilitation, trying to keep these environment-minded farmers living on their families land and practicing Agro-Ecological techniques in their farms and communities.

Activities

The project teaches and trains farmers in Agroforestry technology and vegetable garden production, showing ways to obtain improved sustenance and more lasting and profitable agricultural results, always respecting the environment.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $3,911
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $56,089
Total Funding Goal: $60,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Two targets: 1-More than 6000 farmers and smallholders in local and neighboring counties to whom we demonstrate new agroforestry techniques. 2- Local students and communities members that we invite to our Wildlife Sanctuary to know the Rainforest.

Project Message

As climate, hunger and poverty situation is getting worse every year, I am sure that what I am proposing today as an innovative idea and experience will soon be of compulsory usage in many countries.
- Roberto Lamego, Director of this project

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Roberto Lamego,
Technical director
Rua 17 de Outubro, 74
Centro
Valença, Rio de Janeiro 27600-000
Brazil
55212424524864
Email:

Project Sponsor

Ashoka Innovators for the Public

Organization

SALVEASERRA
Rua 17 de Outubro, Centro
Valença, Rio de Janeiro 27600-000
Brazil
55212424524864

Learn more about SALVEASERRA and the project team.


SALVEASERRA's Current Projects on GlobalGiving

Provide Vegetable Gardens for Families in Brazil
Provide Vegetable Gardens for Families in Brazil

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Brazil and can also be found under Environment.

For more information about Brazil, read the Human Development Report on Brazil or the Wikipedia entry for Brazil.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on September 17, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on November 26, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

Project 1911 update. September 2008. Things are growing, plants and ideas.

By Roberto Lamego - Director, September 17, 2008 05:22 PM

Dear donors and Project friends.

I am glad to say that the “Trees and Education Protect Rainforest in Brazil” project is running smoothly and that the plants and the ideas are growing steadily. I feel that slowly people are beginning to understand and to be more aware of the gravity of the local environmental and water situation that is taking hundreds of rural families out of their land into the cities and some to misery, poverty and crime.
The agroforestry trees in the new planted areas and the coffee plantations are now irrigated with a recently installed system that brings water from the mountain stream. Please see pictures of palm trees plantation and of irrigation of coffee plants.

School groups are visiting the Concordia Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary to spend their day in the forest and also to learn about Agroforestry technology at our Agroforestry Education Center, as did this last group of 34 students that came from a regional Agricultural State School to visit us. This “Day in the Forest” activity was sponsored by the SALVEASERRA/GLOBALGIVING Fund. See project 2239 for fund explanation and the pictures of this students group visit in Photo Gallery.

It is important to say that the project for the donation of irrigated vegetable gardens we started in the beginning of this year was separated from this one and now is on the list of GlobalGiving projects with the title: Provide Vegetable Gardens for Families in Brazil, project 2239.

Thank you all for your support and donations.

Roberto Lamego, director.

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