Clean Up Valle

Por un Lago Azul Valle de Bravo, MĂŠxico

Mafer Diaz de Leon

What is my definition of service learning?

Service Learning is an educational approach that combines learning objectives and meeting social needs. It focuses on providing a progressive learning experience through a meaningful community project.

What is the

New Free Way CDMX - Valle de Bravo

More Tourists and Residents

PROBLEM?

New residents buy or rent houses by the lake (town’s #1 attraction)

Lake is polluted by sewage systems, oil spilled from boats and trash.

| Main Concerns:

1. Valle de Bravo’s Econom sector. If the lake’s pollut it will be highly detriment

2. There is a lack of awaren contaminate this body of that provides 30% of Mex

3. Due to the contaminating overpopulation of lilies turning this lake into a an

my highly depends on the tourism tion is not controlled or taken care of, tal for the towns economy.

ness of how dangerous it is to f water, as it is one of the systems xico City’s drinking water.

g sewage systems, we have an which are expanding underwater n ugly green swamp.

My question How can I organize a trash clean up event in my community to positively impact the environment and facilitate reflections?

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ber of volunteers who joined was perfect and safe.

Mission and Goals The mission was successfully completed.

After our Clea up, we all sat together and reflected on what we just had done.

This is a map that we designed as a further plan on how we were going to accomplish our new habit.

What’s the habit?

1 Paying attention • To what and how we consume.

• To where I think my trash is going to end up in.

• To how we take care of ourselves.

• When walking in the street or the forest.

• When we come back to this place.

3 2 Take action • To propose

Our new Eco-Code • We compromise to question how we consume and why we do it.

• To speak up • We compromise to • To invite others to join

• To recreate the event

• To talk about what we did.

care and to value these spots that we take care of.

• We compromise to be great full for the place we live in.

• We compromise to take action in our own house first by sharing this new habit with our families.

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