Proyecto Siembra Members
Mujeres de Islas
ApplyOpportunity summary
Term length
5/1/2024 - 4/30/2025
Application window
5/1/2024 - 8/1/2024
Location
Culebra, Puerto Rico
Hourly pay equivalent
$12.00
Project summary
Promote healthy futures through gardening on weekly visits to children at schools and day care center and increase food security for our residents in Culebra while carrying out a Cine Siembra's and cooking workshops every month to provide an opportunity to cultivate a healthy relationship between harvesting and consuming nutritious food.
Opportunity description
3 positions to lead activities that offer the opportunity to work cooperatively in groups, learn about science and nutrition, and even create art and stories about gardening and gardens and hands-on experiences and workshops is to have a positive impact in their food choices, increase desire to adapt good nutritional habits, improve low-budget cooking skills, and incorporate what they harvest for an improved household food security, while maintaining our community gardens.
Benefits
- None
Requirements and qualifications
Requirements
Significant outdoors activities that require health to climb, walk, lift and a high school diploma preferred.
Preferred qualifications
Experience in agro-ecology gardening methods, strong team work.
Opportunity details
Focus area
- Natural resource preservation and conservation
- Reforestation or afforestation
- Urban agriculture
- Recycling and composting programs
- Environmental justice
- Disaster preparedness recovery and response
- Economic development support for energy transition communities
- Climate smart agriculture and sustainable farming
- Soil and water conservation
- Farm to school initiatives
- Community gardens
- Food waste reduction
- Grant-writing and fundraising
- Volunteer recruitment and management
- Environmental education and training
Work environment
- Team based
- Rural
- Outdoor