Mother Pacha
FORESTS ARE THE LUNGS OF THE PLANET AND EDUCATION THE BEST TOOL FOR THEIR CONSERVATION
EDUCATION AND ENVIRONMENT
COMPLEMENTING YOUR EDUCATION
There are external and internal factors that affect rural school children, which do not allow them to have quality education and meaningful learning (emotional, motivational, and cognitive). Among these we have:
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One-teacher rural schools (one teacher for all grades). According to the National Council of Education, 90% of rural schools are single teachers.
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In Peru, 53% (2000) and 40% (2007) of children under 5 years old suffer from anemia. Many children go to school with high levels of anemia, around 76% in regions such as Puno or in the case of Loreto with 56%.
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Anemia has a significant impact on physical and mental development, behavior, and learning.
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In 2018, the Census Student Assessment (ECE) in rural areas found that only 13 out of 100 4th grade students understand what they read, something that has a lot to do with high rates of malnutrition. According to ENDES (2000), 1 in 4 Peruvian children under the age of 5 suffers from chronic malnutrition.
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In Peru, investment in Education as a whole was 7.5% (2017) of GDP. Similarly, the public sector has increased investment per student at a rate of 11% per year for the last ten years. However, we are well below what the member countries of Cooperation and Development invest (OECD-UNESCO, 2015).
The Peruvian State invests a higher percentage in higher and secondary education, followed by the primary level and with a lower percentage at the initial level.
Solution
The COMPLEMENTING YOUR EDUCATION program is aimed at the student population of rural schools in poverty and extreme poverty of the coastal, highland, and rainforest of Peru.
Considering that it is very important to support the integral development of early childhood and childhood, through the program "Complementing your Education" we will focus on reinforcing and strengthening the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development of rural school children.
Our work approach is based on training teachers, from rural schools, with the Montessori method, exclusively neuro pedagogical and appropriate for one-teacher schools. Being the great advantage of this method, the teaching by age groups (classroom from 3 to 6 years and classroom from 6 to 12 years). We will generate, through the Montessori methodology, a positive impact on children's learning.
The Montessori method from its beginnings to the present time has positive results in the physical, psychological and social development of children from marginal contexts, children with physical and intellectual deficiencies. It is a method that adapts the child's learning environment to their level of physical and mental development. The child learns in his real environment, with scientifically designed concrete materials and/or typical of his school environment, geographic and social environment.
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
UNDERSTANDING MY ENVIRONMENT
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Peru in the last two decades lost 2 million hectares of primary forests.
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It is estimated that Peru loses more than 427 hectares of Amazon forests per day (SERFOR) due to causes such as migratory agriculture, illegal logging, illegal mining, and drug trafficking.
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The 66% of wood exported by Peru is of illegal origin.
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Only in the Madre De Dios region as a result of illegal mining, 50 thousand hectares of forest have been devastated in recent years.
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In the last 30 years, the glacier surface decreased by 22%. It is estimated that, in the next 10 years, all glaciers below 5,000 meters would be in danger of disappearing.
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Peru ranks as the seventh country with the highest deforestation worldwide.
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In Peru, more than 80,000 live animals have been confiscated from 2000 to 2018, the majority being birds, primates, reptiles such as turtles and iguanas, giant frogs from Lake Titicaca and Junín, please do not buy exotic animals.
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A total of 389 species have been considered with some degree of vulnerability, among which 64 are in a critical state of extinction, which is the most serious level before going extinct. Birds are on the list first, followed by amphibians. and mammals, 90% of all animals traded outside their habitat die along the way due to the precariousness of their transfer.
Solution
"UNDERSTANDING MY ENVIRONMENT" is an environmental education program aimed at children, parents, and teachers from our communities in poverty and extreme poverty on the Coast, Highlands, and rainforest of Peru.
Its objective is to teach all members of the communities to take an environmental conscience that motivates respect, care, and conservation of their natural environment for the development of life, these communities will be our strategic allies to take care of our endemic flora and fauna, species in a vulnerable state, in danger of extinction and in a critical state of extinction, these communities will become a kind of voluntary park ranger, this will be the most effective way of taking care of our environment.
With the construction of bio gardens, we will be able to efficiently teach the students of our schools about the valuation and knowledge about sustainability, they will be the ones who guarantee the care and maintenance of our bio gardens.
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Our glaciers are drying up due to lack of suitable environmental education, many communities continue to burn grasslands in the Peruvian Andes due to lack of information.
The burning of grasslands greatly predates the ecosystem in the Andes, a bad habit practiced since the 16th century.
BIOGARDENS RESCUE
Implemented to reforest with native trees, shrub, and medicinal plants characteristic of the different areas in the Coast, Highlands, and rainforest of our territory, we believe that true reforestation should be with endemic species that brings benefits in the short, medium and long term, unlike exotic species such as eucalyptus, pine, cypress, ash or others that in the future will worsen and impoverish the soils, leaving greater consequences for future generations, we will always encourage communal reforestation with native species, school children and parents will re-learn the great value of their own ecosystem, the more education, the greater our success.
These bio gardens will serve as information centers for biologists, agronomists, and many other specialists who wish to visit our communities and contribute to our bio gardens.
BIOGARDENS NUTRITION
"COMBATING THE ANEMIA" is a nutritional education program seeking to reduce anemia in our communities. In Peru 43.6% of children suffer from anemia, however, in the highlands and the jungle, the percentages are much higher. For example in the highland region of Puno, the percentage of children affected is 76% and in the jungle region of Ucayali, that percentage is 56%.
Another unfortunate statistic in our country is that 12.8% of children suffer from chronic malnutrition. Considering this data, we will implement school bio gardens with native species to help combat malnutrition.
These bio gardens will serve as information centers for biologists, agronomists, and many other specialists who wish to visit our communities and contribute to our bio gardens.
Quishuar (Buddleja incana), its local name is still preserved since ancient times, each year with the burning of pastures and the raising of cattle this and other species are put at risk, there are many species that are already in danger of extinction.
Second-grade children show us their school bio-garden.
Little by little some Peruvian products are being recognized for their nutritional value, quinoa is a very evident example. we will take advantage of its nutritional value and the immense variety that we have for ecological niches
THE GIFTS OF NATURE