Project start date: April/2011 Link to the Footprint: Constructs new environmental values. Specific Objectives: • Promote workshops, lectures, training for multiplying agents and other educational activities; •
Visitation by at least one school per week according to a the school year calendar and receive at least 3,000 students by the year 2012;
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Hold at least 4 workshops per month for multipliers.
Description: The Environmental Education Centres will do the following: qualify children in primary and lower and higher secondary education by providing field classes, showing films, giving lectures, running workshop and play learning activities; qualify community environmental educators for each of the municipality’s micro-regions (presidents of residents associations, members of the school community, members of religious communities etc.) involving at least four live sessions and at least one group per month will be qualified; provide capacity building for teachers in municipal schools preparing them in turn to provide environmental education in their classes; train Autonomous Transportation providers (with carts and wheelbarrows) and qualify them for removing and correctly disposing of small volumes of building work residues, qualifying at least one group every month; provide capacity building for small local organizations enabling them to elaborate unfold and monitor environmental education projects holding at least four workshops a year for that purpose. The Centre will also be the site of the following projects: Mini Municipal Nursery Garden for the team that will be carrying out the landscaping and maintenance of the central flower beds in the avenues; the first Sustainable Home, open for visitation and built using the sustainable building techniques and building materials that are notably sustainable in a model building project.
Campo Grande Ecological Footprint p.
73