Primary School Environmental Education
Environmental education Peru
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.
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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
This project has been retired and is no longer accepting donations.
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
Organization
Grupo GEA
Miguel Aljovín 524, Surco
Lima,
Lima 33
Peru
(051 1) 242-7241
http://www.grupogea.org.pe
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Where this Project is Located
Country
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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 January 8, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on June 1, 2004
Latest Update from the Field
News from Our Project
By Susana Imana - , August 21, 2007 06:22 PM
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.
Please take a look at some of our most recent project photos below. Others are posted in our photo gallery.
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