Green Please for the Kids established an alliance with Asociación Kauyeken to reach different areas of Chile with the mission of disseminating and valuing natural heritage and its relationship with culture. The alliance seeks to strengthen the objectives of each organization with the implementation of joint projects and activities to promote well-being and sustainable development from childhood.
Kauyeken is an organization dedicated to valuing, conserving and integrating Chilean natural and cultural heritage in its different territories. The association was created in 2013 and operates with headquarters in the Metropolitan region and the Magallanes region, and has developed research, education and dissemination projects on the relationship between biodiversity, well-being and the identity of our country. For its part, Green Please for the Kids is an organization made up of women and girls, whose purpose is to generate educational processes, spaces for action, spaces for reflection and critical thinking for and with girls, boys, young people and adults, to promote care and balance of diversity, both in the natural world and in the personal, social and cultural world for good living and the sustainable future of the planet. Together, the two organizations hope to help girls and boys reconnect with the value of nature.
As a first action, both organizations are working on the project "Re-discovering the nature of my culture: naturalists in our daily lives", an initiative that aims to help girls and boys of Magallanes understand the relationship that exists between nature and its culture through an interactive book for free distribution and workshops in all the provinces of Magallanes. In this project, Green Please for the Kids advises on content and pedagogical methodologies throughout the entire process. Additionally, Kauyeken has made its publications on biodiversity and culture available as input to be used in the educational processes promoted by Green Please.
For Montserrat Vega Lavandeira, founder and director of Green Please for the Kids, “this alliance is and will be a great collaborative experience to benefit the knowledge of girls and boys, accompanying them to immerse themselves in the appreciation of cultural and natural diversity in order to inhabit our “Earth from personal and global understanding and well-being.” Gabriela Simonetti-Grez, Executive Director of Kauyeken and member of the board of Green Please for the Kids, “for Kauyeken, the work with Green Please has been and will be key to advancing a tremendous challenge that we have as a society: facing the extinction of the experience with nature, reconnecting children with their environment and the value that biodiversity has in itself, as for our good living.”