Reciclamos con otro sentido

Leading agency: Asociación para la mediación social EQUA
Area of interventions: Climate change
Education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning

 

Citizenship empowerment

Prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse

Relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature

Social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status

Total budget: € 7.394,00
Requested contributions: € 6.506,72
Duration: 7 months
Start and end date(s): 01/03/2019 – 30/09/2019

Summary of the project

The project is an awareness-raising campaign aimed at promoting a greater commitment to action and responsibility making the appropriate use of existing resources. The project sets various activities: a training for a group of young people with intellectual disabilities who will be contracted to give environmental workshops in primary schools. These workshops will make use of recycled material so that young people can learn how to elaborate a product with recycle material. Then a Street Action will be organized exhibiting the school work done during the recycling workshops.

Beneficiaries

This campaign is mainly aimed at two groups, primary school pupils (600) and people with intellectual disabilities (10). It has a twofold objective of raising awareness: in terms of awareness of society, and in terms of the inclusion in the labour market of people with intellectual disabilities.
The project also seek the involvement of students from educational and environmental career (15) who will help and support people with intellectual disabilities to development the workshop.
Citizens from Cadiz (about 600) are also final beneficiaries since the street action who give them information about the need to reduce, recycle and reuse material for a sustainable.