The community of Puerto Chentico, inhabited by people of the Wayuu ethnic group, where each of them survive from tourism activities, where they offer handicrafts and environmental awareness services and apart from that they carry out artisanal fishing activities. Despite this and being linked to interaction with environmental authorities, they suffer from the scourge of garbage in their environment, since the awareness and sense of belonging to their habitat do not consider it a priority.
Despite this, the TerrAmada.org foundation has been implementing awareness-raising sessions with these communities, teaching them how to manage solid waste and changing their landscape pressured by garbage, for a clean environment when carrying out garbage collection tasks.
DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITY:
In this case, the action was carried out on May 20, 2022, beginning at 10 in the morning and ending at 6:00 p.m.
It was a joint action involving 98 people from the community, 1 representative from TerrAmada and 2 volunteers.
The participants were children, adolescents and mothers.
50 bags of waste were collected, which were placed in the appropriate container.
The recreation was carried out and directed by the representative of the foundation, where games were made with prizes represented in toys.
The food offered was rice pudding.
At the level of awareness, a talk related to caring for the environment was given at the beginning of the day, highlighting the importance of the activity in favor of its landscape.
To culminate the activity, thanks were given and images of the day were taken.
