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Educate Ecuadorian Children to Face Global Warming

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Summary

We provide resources, training and hands-on opportunities to create awareness and teach children about conservation in the Galapagos Islands and poor areas of Quito, the most polluted city in Ecuador. progress reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Since Arcandina Foundation developed a successful environmental educational program based on the enter educate and multimedia approach the project will combine video programs with children’s workbooks, training for school teachers, and entrepreneurial initiatives for conservation development for children, schools and the communities, reaching 20.000 children, 100 teachers and 50 schools in the Galapagos Islands and poor areas in Quito, the highest polluted city in Ecuador.

Activities

- Develop 20,000 work books for children - Develop 100 environmental multimedia educational schools’ kits - Develop 5 training for teachers - Produce 6 educational TV programs - Develop 2 conservational projects - Create a network with eco-chi

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $1,000
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $29,000
Total Funding Goal: $30,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Educational material models will be donated to the Minister of Education for massive reproduction to give to public schools. The Arcandina foundation will be expand their school’s network to continue with a long term educational process.

Project Message

Im a young who loves your video programs, my actittudes and life changes when I sow this kind of programs, and I began to care the nature, actually you help me to growth.
- Roger Buenaño, Ecuador, Beneficiary

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Pablo Palacios,
Project Manager
Japón y Av. Naciones Unidas
Torres Iñaquito, Torre E, Dto. 503
Quito, Pichincha 0000
Ecuador
59322465845
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Project Sponsor

Ashoka Innovators for the Public

Organization

Arcandina Foundation
Guayas 105 y Av. Amazonas
Edificio Pastor, 1er piso
Quito, Pichincha 1717427
Ecuador
(5932)2459305
http://www.arcandina.org

Learn more about Arcandina Foundation and the project team.



Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Ecuador and can also be found under Children.

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

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on July 28, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on November 09, 2006.

Latest Update from the Field

Educating Children to Face Global Warming

By Pablo Palacios - Project Manager, July 28, 2008 06:53 PM

Whit the documentary "El Cambio Climático en el Ecuador" (The climate change in Ecuador), the program We seed the Furute, reached more than 100,000 children in several provinces in Ecuador, through a strategic alliance with de Ministry of Education.

In 2008, the project has expanded to working with young people.

The project makes a initiative with te trained people in order to promote the commitment with the environment, to paint a giant canvas with traces of hands, actualy we have more than 700 meters of canvas.

In june, 2008, the President of Ecuador, Ec. Rafael Correa, put her trace of and in the canvas.
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