Promote environmental education and conservation awareness through arts education, music and physical education in public schools in Rio Grande, RS, Brazil.
This volunteer program is especially suitable for:
Carnival! In Brazil, the people live year-round to enjoy one - special - week! However, Ritmo do Mar is a thematic carnival that promote a social intervention based on cultural, ethical and sustainability values. During school period, workshops are also proposed In to several schools from Rio Grande in a long-term cycle of activities of environmental education, music education (divided in the making of instruments and percussion), artistic education and physical education, culminating in the many parades for each school. We organized workshops for orphanages and educational centers from various locations in the city of Rio Grande to make instruments and others props such as flags and costumes using recicled materials (debris, paper and natural glue).For allegories and props, children making and painting their allegories using recycled carapaces as a simple and inexpensive method for replicating allegories. Each participant makes his custom (a turtle carapace) with papier mache and paints, his instruments with cans or bottles for the many special parades.
Volunteers do not need special equipment or Portuguese as fluency. Although it can help, the children's contact with new languages and new forms of communication, such as art and music, make the experiences for both very special.
Volunteers and researchers leave the house for work between 8:30 and 9:00 AM, return for lunch at 12:30 PM to the center and then it's back to work until 6:00 PM;
Usual working days are Monday - Friday from 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM including the following tasks.
- Sea patrols with kids;
- Education activities in school;
- Education activities in the beach;
- Working in the visitors center;
- Planting native trees.
The volunteers will accompany our technicians who develop activities in a continuous way in different groups (schools, civil organizations). At the same time that they will know our techniques in environmental education, the volunteers will assist the technicians to the accomplishment of the objectives. Because it is a long-term program, the technical team will always contextualize the volunteers about the activities to be performed.
Rio Grande is a city known for musicality, with several local artists of Brazilian and international music (Bando de Coirana - forró , Stone Fire - rock, Yorkshire - rock, Tribo Brasil -samba/sambarock, Slow Burnin´- reggae, Chico Padilha - pop reggae). Thursday to Saturday have a gigs from their local bands with parties always full, since Rio Grande is a university city, with more than 20 thousands students.
Rio Grande has several museums with the most known being those linked to the sea: oceanographic museum, nautical museum, eco-museum Polvora Island, and a visit to the Center for Marine Animal Rehabilitation (CRAM).
Although limited to climatic conditions, there are diving and swimming spots in the breakwaters, as well as hiking through different places in the city as Ilha dos Marinheiros, Capilha and Taim.
Once a week, beach yoga activities are suggested, as well as a percussion workshop.