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public area is yet to be discovered and done, and there is
no structure yet that can hold new initiatives. Projects
become unworkable because of the lack of structure or
contention. Public and private efforts to improve the social
situation are a waste of money and only alleviate problems
but do not solve the core of the matter.
We propose the
creation of a social area that involves University
graduates, as they would do in a medical residence, in the
creation and concretion of social projects that solve
punctual problems of their community related to their
studies. In addition, this project includes retired
professionals or teachers that offer their experience and
expertise.
The creation of a
structure that allows to respond to multiple local projects
with a non bureaucratic flexibility would be the key to this
organization. Each University associated to this institution
will offer plans based on the local needs or, in turn,
approve projects presented by the graduates themselves.
Students will receive a wage for their work and act as
directors of the project while employing others in need as
their work force. This will give the governments resources a
better use than just giving money away as unemployment
social security, while providing a paid dignifying job for
people that, furthermore, helps their community.
Each project will
have a predefined time to accomplish it. After that
graduates will be able to choose to continue working on the
project or move on. Students will be responsible for the
full development and application of the projects as well as
the raising of founds and administration. Seeking support
not only on the public sector but sponsorship or investment
of private companies, looking for sustainable projects that
can be handed over to the community and prevail even if they
are gone.
As a starting
point for this, we developed an example project called: The
Children’s forest. This project can be developed in rural
areas or communities living in forestall or jungle
environments. The project consists in obtaining legal
ownership of an area of land. This could be depredated or
cut down forest land. Here a group of agronomist, biologist,
botanist or agricultural graduates will determine what would
be the best and more profitable species of trees to plant
for a future forestall project. As they prepare and plant
the land local children will be educated and instructed on
the values of nature and how to develop an harmonious and
sustainable relationship with their environment, as well as
the technical tools to make real a forestall plantation. As
the graduates work, children learn and the planet increases
its green areas an oxygen resources.
When the trees
have overcome their initial sprouting time and are already
growing the forests enters its maintenance period as it
waits for the trees to be fully grown. While this happens
children, together with their teachers and parents, can
learn to use the other immediate resources the forest
provides, as the commercialization of mushrooms, fruits from
the forest, the utilization of seeds to make handicrafts or
even to learn how to sum in their math class. In order to
avoid petty differences or materialistic ambitions the
ownership of the land will be handed over to the children
themselves, who, once they reach a defined age will receive
the administration of the project. Provided they will be
well educated in solidarity and care for nature, they will
exploit the forest as a money income for them and their
families and, once again, plant the trees for the future
generation. In this way we can create a sustainable,
profitable development that in order to those characteristic
will survive and provide income for various generations.
Considering also, as world economic trends indicate, that
wood will be a very highly priced resource in the near
future.
A piece of land
will be left untouched, and those trees never cut down to
provide a long lasting playground for the children and a
living class room for their natural science studies. As each
tree takes a minimum of 20 years to grow, forestall
developments adjust perfectly to the idea of creating a
legacy for a future generation and also teaches us adults
the value of solidarity and generosity towards our
contemporaries and successors. |
