By Yasmin (translation by Binka) | Online Education Coordinator
Dear donors,
Well, we all made it through 2020 and here are our best wishes to all of you for 2021 - may it bring us hope, health and happiness! And before we go any further, we want to send you all a great big thank you for your support over the year, and for your magnificent response to our cri de coeur at year end! Thanks to each one of you we are able to cover our estimated budget for 2021, and we’d never have made it without you!
And now for our education plans for 2021. Last year was difficult for all of us, and I can’t tell you how much we missed having the schoolkids on site, and watching their excitement as they made new discoveries and learned to feel more at home in the forest environment.
But, like everyone, we pivoted, and, as you may remember, we set up an online course for environmental leaders, which turned out to be a great success. One of the students, Sheila, was so excited by what she had learned on the course that she took a four-hour bus journey to Iracambi to help out with the tree planting! She also came up with some terrific ideas for future courses, and we’re finalizing our content for the next one - which we plan to run next month. (January is traditionally holiday time in Brazil, and most people aren’t mentally prepared to study before February!)
Education is so important to us that it’s a part of everything that we do at Iracambi: from hosting young people like Sheila who want to play their part in restoring the rainforest, to the conversations we have with farm families on planting days, to discussions at community meetings and councils, and of course to our program for volunteers and researchers which we’re really hoping to resume over the next few months.
So we can’t wait to see what 2021 has in store for us all, and our dearest wish is to be able to get the schoolkids back here before too long. We're determined not to let them miss out because of covid19!
Please take care of yourselves, better times are a-coming!
With much rainforest love from Yasmin and the Iracambi team
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