Monday, October 3, 2011

Environmental Fair


Yesterday we capped off our three-day environmental fair - Unidos por el Agua, Aguas Zarcas. I have been working with a group of individuals in the town who are very passionate about cleaning up their community and spreading environmental education. The fair was a big success. Friday we had an a little inauguration, mainly for the school students, including games, songs, dance groups, a clown, local artists exhibiting their crafts made from recycled goods, classes on water conservation, trees and reforestation. Saturday was the big work day - we planned to plant trees and clean up the rivers of all the trash people throw in them. Sadly, the local Municipality didn't give us the truck we needed to haul all the trash away, so we weren't able to do the trash pick up. Hopefully that will happen within a month or two. Regardless, we had over 60 participants come to plant trees. In total we planted well over 300 trees around two streams that had been deforested and also a spring that was used to supply a couple communities with water. Sunday we had a bike rally to demonstrate to the entire town our concern for the environment and our commitment to cleaning up the town. Afterwards we had Bingo to raise funds for the school. It was a great activity, and I think it got a lot of people interested in cleaning up their town/being more environmentally responsible. I took a bunch of pictures, but forgot my camera Sunday, sorry.

Friday: Events for the kids, recycled art/furniture, typical dances, tree class.





Saturday: Tree planting in two different creek.








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