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About Us
The NORDESTA Reforestation & Education association was founded in Geneva on the 15th of May 1985. Its objective is to preserve tropical forests and to improve the lives of its isolated populations. Our two fields of activity are environment and education:
Environment
- Save primitive forests and plante native trees to reforest damaged areas.
- Plant forest corridors to link together isolated forest fragments
- Set up tree nurseries that will produce trees and create local jobs.
- Préserver la biodiversité animale et végétale sous toutes ses formes.
- Offrir l’accès à l’eau pour tous par la protection des sources et l’installation de citernes et de collecteurs d'eau de pluie.
- Sensibilisation des populations locales à l'importance des forêts tropicales, de l'eau et des sols.
- Soutenir les communautés agricoles dans leur lutte pour la préservation des écosystèmes.
- Organiser des séminaires et des ateliers de formation à l’écologie avec les enseignants et former des agents multiplicateurs.
Education
- Construct schools and libraries.
- Create training workshops to instruct young people in activities such as carpentry, ceramics, drawing, gardening, sewing, and screen process printing.
- Support the schooling of girls thanks to our action "The way to school for every girl" thrugh our project launched in 2001.
- Equipping local centres that offer accommodation, attention, food, and education to street kids.
- Encourage local farming programs with participation in the fields of sustainable organic plantations and help to set up bee hives.
Criteria
Projects supported by Nordesta match the following criteria:
- Priority is given to projects initiated by the local population.
- Beneficiaries must commit themselves to the realization of their project
- The project must acquire financial independence in the long run.
- Among the beneficiaries, poor children and single-parent families are favored.
- Each project must generate "Multiplying Agents" who will help its consolidation and expansion
- The projects are part of sustainable development perspective which links the human being to his environment.
- Support farming communities in their struggle to preserve ecosystems.
- The municipalities working with us must set up or reinforce their local Agenda 21.