Like every morning, in a warm sector of the municipality of Santibáñez in Bolivia, anxious students of the Luís Guzmán Araujo School sit outside and wait happily, expressed through their small smiling faces. It is the beginning of a new school day and the boys and girls of the fourth grade, with their typical childhood curiosity, anxiously await the beginning of the day to learn more about the problem of environmental contamination, which days before their professor, Norma Cabas, taught them, using the knowledge imparted on her by Project Concern International.
Mariel Rodríguez Antezana, a lively and highly observant nine-year old girl who attends this school daily, tells us that her greatest aspiration is to become a teacher. With her high level of intelligence, she was quick to realize the harm that the plastic bags and bottles strewn about her community were causing to the environment.
Conscious of this harm, Mariel quickly learned to recycle this material and converted herself into a teacher's helper, telling her classmates to transform the same harmful material into pretty and useful crafts, like beautifully knit tablecloths, placemats, and bags.
This young but great teacher, with hope lighting up her face, now works laboriously together with her classmates that consider her their leader in the war against plastic.
Upon asking her what would be her greatest wish if she could have anything in the world, without a doubt in her voice Mariel answered, "I want to keep studying."
Just as it does in the Luís Guzmán Araujo School, PCI works to promote the recycling of plastic bags in more than 1,200 schools in Bolivia, and has educated to date many children like Mariel, who learn to take action in order to care for our environment.
Mariel Rodríguez Antezana, a lively and highly observant nine-year old girl who attends this school daily, tells us that her greatest aspiration is to become a teacher. With her high level of intelligence, she was quick to realize the harm that the plastic bags and bottles strewn about her community were causing to the environment.
Conscious of this harm, Mariel quickly learned to recycle this material and converted herself into a teacher's helper, telling her classmates to transform the same harmful material into pretty and useful crafts, like beautifully knit tablecloths, placemats, and bags.
This young but great teacher, with hope lighting up her face, now works laboriously together with her classmates that consider her their leader in the war against plastic.
Upon asking her what would be her greatest wish if she could have anything in the world, without a doubt in her voice Mariel answered, "I want to keep studying."
Just as it does in the Luís Guzmán Araujo School, PCI works to promote the recycling of plastic bags in more than 1,200 schools in Bolivia, and has educated to date many children like Mariel, who learn to take action in order to care for our environment.
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To learn more about PCI's work in Bolivia, please visit http://www.projectconcern.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Combating_malnutrition_and_poverty_in_Bolivia.
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