Fondacio Chile: After the success of the climate action day, held on March 11, AIEC published a video, showing the participation of different entities in favor of the climate.
Fondacio contributed to the event by ringing the bells of the Nuestra Señora de los Pobres parish and the Jesus Pastor chapel, located just across from the Los Almendros Center, for 11 minutes.
For this, we have the collaboration of the parish priest Julio Diaz who has provided all the facilities for the ringing of the respective bells. In these places were present people from the Reciclo program of Fondacio Chile to promote recycling, composting and community gardens.
- What is Reciclo?
Through an environmental approach, Reciclo promotes community life in a vulnerable neighborhood of Santiago, Chile.
The neighborhood, where Fondacio's headquarters are located in Chile, is located in Huechuraba, a city north of Santiago. This neighborhood is in a very vulnerable situation due to several problems (drugs, violence and crime, precarious work, unemployment, a large number of single mothers and isolation of the elderly). The low level of environmental education and the lack of community life are very important.
Inspired by projects such as "La tricyclerie" in France or "Incredible foodstuffs" in England, the idea of Reciclo was born in 2018 to organize the collection of organic waste in tricycles, the construction of community gardens and offer environmental awareness workshops. It came to fruition in 2019.
Reciclo offers several lines of action:
Composting. Recycling of organic matter (composting). Reciclo organizes the bi-weekly collection of organic waste from each household in tricycles and collects organic waste in different types of composters (vermicompostera, Bokashi ...) built in community.
Community gardens. In the medium term, Reciclo wants to use the fertilizer generated by these composters in the creation of community gardens in the neighborhood squares. In the long term, it also seeks to promote healthier eating with the use of vegetables grown in these gardens.
Educational workshops. Reciclo teaches environmental care through awareness workshops: sorting waste, how compost works, creating orchards, permaculture principles, making "zero waste" products, etc.
Clean points. In the near future, Reciclo wants to build a clean point in the neighborhood to allow residents to more easily separate all their recyclable waste (PET, cardboard/paper, glass, cans, Tetra Pack). This will reduce waste and increase recycling.
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