More than 90 people, including students and teachers from public and private schools as well as representatives of Cooperativa de Ahorros y Préstamos Vega Real, participated on March 25th in the talk
organized by ReCrearte in the town of La Vega, as part of the XXII edition of the Geography Week, in collaboration with Listin Diario’s Plan Lea, under the slogan "More Food, Less Pollution."
The GFDD/Funglode program coordinator, Bertha Santana, talked about creative recycling and how it may be develop in the classroom with the support of the four pillars of education: learning to be, learning to know, learning to live and learning to do. "This is a pedagogical strategy for environmental education at all levels, which contributes to reducing waste in classrooms and responsible food packaging use," she said.
Meanwhile, the Executive Director of Cooperativa de Ahorros y Préstamos Vega Real gave words of appreciation and motivation to the participants, while the Executive Director of the Jaragua Group, Yvonne Arias, spoke on "Sustainable Development and Natural Capital". At the end, Rosario Vásquez, coordinator of Plan Lea, distributed educational booklets of Listin Diario’s newspaper.
ReCrearte is a practical education initiative that offers women, youth and children workshops on creative recycling. The program shows how recycling waste can empower individuals and communities by creating alternative sources of income. Through this program GFDD/Funglode seeks to involve Dominican communities in reshaping the way we think about waste, thus promoting the principle of the 3Rs: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
Niños y adultos desbordaron un amplio salón de FUNGLODE, para seguir las instrucciones de Bertha Santana y Moses Ros, sobre creaciones con botellas plásticas y cartones desechados.
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