Environmental education is a powerful tool to understand territories, recognize biodiversity and strengthen the sense of belonging to the places people live in. When schools connect with the world outside the classroom, learning becomes meaningful and close.
Working in partnership with the Humboldt Institute and alongside teachers in our areas of influence in Casanare and Putumayo, we designed and made study kits that reflect local realities. These nature-focused science kits acknowledge the value of biodiversity, water resources and schools’ surroundings.
More than 50 teachers have taken part in training sessions to on how to best use the contents of the play-based kits with their students, bringing the kits into the learning process and connecting with day-to-day local life.
Over 20 teachers from Villanueva and Tauramena in Casanare shared ideas on how to connect learning with surroundings and culture. In Putumayo, about 30 teachers and teaching teams took part in sessions held in Puerto Asis that presented the kit as a tool to learn to ask about, explore and acknowledge the value of forests, animals, rivers and local traditions.
We donated more than 150 study kits, consisting of games, short stories and learning guides that through their relevance to local realities strengthen science classes.
This initiative is part of our purpose of Creating Value and Giving Back, which enhances local capacities. Schools are places to build communities, protect nature and recognize that knowledge is born from the territory as well as from the classroom.
