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Primary School Environmental Education

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Summary

6,000 children will improve reading comprehension and appreciation for Lima's natural surroundings through a fun story that tells the adventures of 2 characters in Lurin, Lima’s last existing valley. progress reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Peruvian kids and teachers have little access to good educational materials. This is one reason why, according to the United Nations Development Programme, Peruvian children rank second worst in academic performance in Latin America. We will use environmental issues (mainly urban biodiversity) to produce materials that motivate teachers and kids to improve academic performance (i.e. reading, comprehension and verbal expression). Beneficiaries are 20 schools, 400 teachers and 12,000 students.

Activities

• Design and print educational materials • Construct mobile tent • Train young trainers • Develop workshops in 20 schools and 3 municipalities • Evaluate, diffuse and transfer program materials and results.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $10,793
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $82,607
Total Funding Goal: $93,400

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Materials and instruments are adopted by the Ministry of Education and Regional Educational Directorate and integrated into school curriculum. All Lima schools receive a visit of the educational tent, to potentially impact more than 1 million kids.

Project Message

Education is the only sustainable solution to the challenge of sustainability.
- Anna Zucchetti, Executive Director, GEA Group

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Susana Imana,

Miguel Aljovín 524, Surco
Lima, Lima 33
Peru
(051 1) 242-7241
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Project Sponsor

Ashoka Innovators for the Public

Organization

Grupo GEA Logo Grupo GEA
Miguel Aljovín 524, Surco
Lima, Lima 33 
Peru
(051 1) 242-7241
http://www.grupogea.org.pe

Learn more about Grupo GEA and the project team.



Where this Project is Located

Country

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

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

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on August 21, 2007.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on June 01, 2004.

Latest Update from the Field

News from Our Project

By Susana Imana - , August 21, 2007 06:22 PM

The second publication of the story “The Adventures of Tomas and Pukin” is now ready for publication. Ezio Neyra, the author of numerable literary works and founder of the Niñolee Association, was responsable for writing the new episodes of the story.

With this story we look to contribute to the solution of two problems: i) the low level of reading comprehension among children, as the famous PISA survey states that Peru holds the penultimate position of a sample selection of forty-two countries in the World; and ii) the little value that is given to natural and cultural resources in the last existing valley of Lima, which is being slowly depleted due the dizzying growth rate of Lima.

For these reasons, we need to print these stories, distribute them to the six thousand children that live in Lurin Valley and offer educational assistance to the proffesors.

We are sure that if we raise the level of reading comprehension of these children we will be lowering the incidences of children that cannot read in our country, which in our opinion, is one of the principle causes of underdevelopment and exclusion of the poorest countries in the world, above all those that are rural.

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