Learning outdoors for children of the favelas

Healthy soils are critical for global food production, but we are not paying enough attention to this important "silent ally," FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said.. 

Healthy soils not only are the foundation for food, fuel, fibre and medical products, but also are essential to our ecosystems,  playing a key role in the carbon cycle, storing and filtering water, and improving resilience to floods and droughts, he noted. 

The UN has declared 2015 the International Year of Soils. At SINAL, a 500 acres acres farm we are inspiring the children of Santo Antonio Community, a ten thousand community outside of Rio,  the love for soil.  Doing compost,  taking care of degraded land through several types of restoration, which  called the attention of big environmental organizations that have joined the Bonn Challenge, www.thebonnchallenge.org. Restoring  150 million hectares by 2020 could sequester approximately 53 Gt CO2 e over the course of 50 years as well as injecting more than US$80 billion per year into local and national economies.

At SINAL we will be concentrating our work in 2015 in restoring the soil and doing this work with Children which will be the ones that will have to undertake this task in the years to come. 

We hope you will join us in this endeavour! We need your help to cover the costs of an structures with instructors that can allow children to be with us.

Restoration of forests and soils. An idea which time has come! Each one of us has to contribute!