For the teachers of the Mercedes Romero de Quintero Educational Institution and for the inhabitants of El Totumo, Corpoguajira's support is true support for the consolidation of the Environmental Education School Project (FORWARD) and the Citizen Environmental Education Project (PROCEED).

Students from the different high school grades of Mercedes Romero de Quintero appropriated a small plot of the rural school that they delimited with recycled PET bottles in cleaning days carried out in the El Totumo spa town located in the municipality of San Juan del Cesar in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, tourist place par excellence for visitors to the department.

Building each of the plots took hours of conscience and work dedicated to the field, which consisted of cleaning, soil fertilizer, planting and daily care to see the birth of a school garden where carrots and beets show their resistance to the climate, They also sprout healthy fruits like tomatoes., cucumbers, chili peppers, eggplants, small garlic, beans, inter alia.

Each plot is named after the inspiration of the high school group that sponsors and cares for it.. Soon they will collect fruits to sell and share, but in the meantime, the School Environmental Project is strengthened in each of the phases. (FORWARD) which Corpoguajira supports and which functions as a self-sustaining project as a food security strategy facing the onslaught of climate change.

 

While the students crystallize their RESP, the teacher Delia Bolaño from the same school, has shared the experience of teaching at each student's home, allowing interaction with teachers, parents and students where ideas arise that seek development for the township.

The construction of a playful house where the totumo is honored, native medicinal plant of the place, It is the Citizen Project of Environmental Education (PROCEED) in which all the living forces of the district have converged, It is the initiative that arises from Bolaño, with the School at Home project.

The totumo house made of that material would be the place to exhibit all those products that arise through the transformation of the totumo: cough syrups and asthma cure, ovarian cleansing, hair shampoo, kitchen utensils, decorative elements, necklaces, and others could be another attraction of the place while recognizing the ancestral wisdom and manual skill of the locals.