Children’s Agroecological School

The Children’s Agroecological School was created by our scholarship recipients as a response to a problem that the community raised in relation to waste management and the lack of education about the environment, recycling, reforestation, and agroecology. The scholarship students determined that environmental education should begin at the youngest level in order to foster a new generation of environmental stewards. The idea is that the school is a blend between the Farming for the Future Program and the Knowledge is Power Program.

Beginning in 2020, students from schools in Tehuiste Arriba, Tehuiste Abajo, and San Jeronimo gather once a month to participate in workshops geared towards taking care of the environment.

Each month, the children are taught something new in relation to environmental stewardship. Previously, they were taught to take care of the environment and the three R’s (reduce, reuse, recycle) through arts & crafts. They enjoyed activities related to the three R’s and learned about their environment by identifying each element and the different states of matter that create it.

Through our cooperation with CONFRAS, a confederation representing 131 cooperatives in El Salvador working to promote sustainable and organic agricultural techniques, the Children’s Agroecological School helped plant fruit and timber trees along the banks of the two rivers surrounding the Los Tehuistes communities. During this process, they learned how to make organic fertilizer and cultivate these fruit trees.

Regular cleaning campaigns throughout the Los Tehuistes communities also help the participants learn to care for the environment around them.