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Brazil
Environment
Saving Wildlife Through Environmental Education
More Information About this ProjectProject Needs and BeneficiariesMany schools in the Dsitrito Federal are located in poor peripheries where there is still native vegetation and wild animals. People that live there, many of them children and teenagers, have the habit of capturing wild animals to sell them in markets. This is why we have to promote an educational work with this students, to make them understand that taking animals from nature causes not only serious damage to the environment but can also bring them and their families dangerous diseases. ActivitiesThe project includes production and distribution of educational material, and speeches by Renctas’ volunteers to help teachers promote pedagogical activities with their students. Funding InformationThis project has been retired and is no longer accepting donations. Additional DocumentationThis project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf). ResourcesWhy this Project is ImportantPotential Long Term ImpactThis project has the capacity to benefit for one year an estimated public of 40,000 child and teenagers that study in public schools. According to official estimation, an educational material has a 5 years life. Project Message
The educational material that Renctas develops has helped us a lot in our work with students, it made us discover that fauna is everyone’s wealth and that we have the obligation to conserve it. Who is Running This ProjectContact
Raulff Lima, Project SponsorAshoka Innovators for the Public (nominal) Organisation
Learn more about RENCTAS and the project team. Where this Project is LocatedCountry
This project is located in For more information about Brazil, read the Human Development Report on Brazil or the Wikipedia entry for Brazil. When this Project was UpdatedLast UpdatedThis project was last updated on July 23, 2010. Date Added to GlobalGivingThis project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 03, 2007. Latest Update from the FieldArticle about RENCTAS in Innovations MagazineBy Raulff Lima - Executive Coordinator, August 14, 2007 05:35 PM
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