Regional Autonomous Corporation of La Guajira and Social Foundation Tecbaco S.A - FUNDEBAN signed voluntary agreement to implement the Citizens' Environmental Education Project: Conservation and Protection of Strategic Systems Tapias River in the department of La Guajira, which will be valid for two years and will impact communities and ecosystems located in the lower part of the basin.

Corpoguajira includes within its action plan to boost the development of Citizens Environmental Education Projects (you proceed) and at the initiative of FUNDEBAN, This partnership is established, to formulate a participatory manner with the community with a PROCEED that aims to preserve and protect strategic ecosystems in the basin of river Tapias and promote environmental education and tourism promotion, based on good environmental practices among its users, which aims to intervene to achieve the formation of ethical and responsible citizens against the management of renewable natural resources, with a population aware of their rights and environmental duties within the group to which it belongs and agenciar capable of building an environmentally sustainable culture.

"We see great value and importance of the signing of this agreement of wills, a partnership between the private sector, institutions and communities, a strong synergy that allows us the best actions in pursuit of the protection and conservation of these ecosystems. Our responsibility in environmental education is part of our institutional mission and what we seek is to raise community awareness about the importance of exercising national policy of environmental education, "said Luis Medina, Director of the Corporation, once signed this alliance.

The Environmental Education Project Citizen states 3 components: promote environmental education among the different users of the lower basin of Río Tapias, reduce levels of environmental pollution through community and institutional strategies and mechanisms and strengthen the control and monitoring of strategic ecosystems of the lower basin of the river Tapias.

Meanwhile, Iris Yanci Orozco, Director of Fundeban, responsible for the social part surrounding the banana production in the sector Pelechúa, Puente Bomba and Comejenes, He noted that the activities set out in the agreement of wills will be implemented within the Economic and Environmental strategic focus that guides the organization and in this framework works in the Banana Zone with Cold and Magdalena rivers and Sevilla in La Guajira, initiates actions in the river Tapias. "In Buenahora we are signing this agreement of wills, an alliance that will allow us to empower communities and educate them in all matters concerning the conservation of the environment ". Orozco said Yanci.

This agreement will directly benefit approximately, 1.200 Snuff people in communities Rubio, Tigrera, Matitas, Chol and Anaime, where it will also promote tourism part with good practice, in the last three corregimientos. The parties do not rule out the possibility that these actions extend to other locations, because the previous diagnosis showed low rates of environmental education in much of the lower basin of the river Tapias.