Adding more action to our organization!

The "math contest" is running... the final day will be September 13. Meantime, we are inviting primary and high schools in Loreto so they can send pre-selected students. All people is invited as participants, we will need people to help us to evaluate, control, and develop the best strategies to encourage kids to learn this important topic. It wll be good prizes for all the 1st. place kids, and very useful. In order to keep a record of participants, and receive ideas or commets, I opened a facebook group at: http://groups.to/desarrolloamazonico
Please visit the link, and let me know about your opinion.

Don't forget that all registered participants (volunteers) will be planting a tree, as a simbolic act and example for reforestation...

Description

Our goal is maintaining or improving the health, and education system in charge of the peruvian government. At the same time, give of ourselves with our knowledge, understanding, point of view, comments, and experiences in order to share them with the local villagers. Topics can be related to sustainable management of natural resources, or the knowledge you have.

Actually in 2009, the "En acción" project is applied with children, teenagers, and young adults in the "Santa Clara II zona", a community about 40 minutes (by boat) NE of Iquitos, upstream the Amazon river. But it rotates to different other communities, with a 3-year term in each community to reach desired goals.

The "En Accion" project is based on the idea of positive influence for the social development, and take into consideration young people as a changing force.

The purpose of this project is to involve children, teenagers, and young adults in activities that will affect their personal, family, and community development. We consider they should be included as a part of the normal development for any community or village. If we take into consideration their potential, capacities, and desires, then this project will open a space where their ideas can be heard and applied, building an easy dynamic that encourage permanent social changes.

Picture taken by a volunteer from US, Sharon Lafer,
in Gen-Gen community (2003)

• Involve children, teenagers, and young adults in activities that will affect their social development positively. Doing that, they will feel able to participate as community leaders.
• Exposure, and encourage higher life-quality standard, moral values, citizenship rights and duties; Understanding, and access to health and insurance system; Principles of tax, and budgeting.
• Opportunity to replicate the experience in other communities.

Picture taken by a volunteer from US, Sharon Lafer,
in Gen-Gen community (2003)

Picture taken by a volunteer from US, Sharon Lafer,
in Gen-Gen community (2003)

• Direct beneficiaries will be children, teenagers, and young adults who live in different communities in Loreto Department.
• Principal activities, but not the only ones, to work with them:

• Building a first-aid box (made out of wood,) as a storage for medicines.
• Building the "commmunity library", or start the community library. Organize the system to keep it running.
• Organize the "reading club" with the children. This is an important step in order to take a real approach to science, and modern techniques in different areas.
• Organize the "recycling service" to collect inorganic garbage, like plastic bottles, bags, and non-biodegradable materials.
• Recycle of organic garbage. Worm-breeders to produce organic soil..
• On-going workshop to train in civil rights, and society topics.
• Health campaigns to help prevent malaria, dengue, parasitosis. Safe use of water.