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Promoting Organic Composting in Bluefields: A Collaborative Community Initiative

The Organic Composting Project in Bluefields aims to identify suitable organic waste for composting, educate households on composting practices, and enhance community engagement. Through collaboration among the University of Virginia, local Scouts, and the Bluefields Environmental Office, this initiative includes a door-to-door awareness campaign and soil testing. Key activities involve developing educational materials, establishing a compost test site, and presenting findings to stakeholders. This project promotes sustainability and environmental awareness within the community.

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Promoting Organic Composting in Bluefields: A Collaborative Community Initiative

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  1. Proyecto de compost orgánico Project Partners: 1) University of Virginia 2) Scouts of Bluefields 3) Environmental office of the Alcaldia in Bluefields 4) Bluefields Indian & Caribbean University

  2. Composting Project • Project Goals: • Determine which organic waste components found in Bluefields make a good recipe for Compost • Work with Scouts to develop a teaching campaign about composting at the household level • a) Go house to house in a pre-determined area to raise awareness of composting

  3. Goal 1: USE SOIL TESTING KIT

  4. Goal 2: Education campaign, select a target area, go house-to-house

  5. Possible Project Timeline • Robin and Emma Meet with Bluefields Scout Council – July 22 • Students from the University of Virginia (UVa) arrive – July 25 • Students meet Scouts – July 26 • How often do Scouts meet? When? Where? • Students meet with Scouts in the afternoon each day of that week of July 26 to July 30, to plan education campaign, target area, and recipe for compost • Start compost test-site in specified location (BICU?) • Students and Scouts visit the rehabilitation farm currently producing compost • Composting partners spend the week of August 2 to 6 doing the household campaign • Composting partners spend week of August 9 to 12 continuing campaign and checking on composting recipe • Composting partners present findings to Scout Council, Environmental office, BICU professors, and other stakeholders on Thursday August 12 • Goodbye party at Tia Irene on Saturday August 14

  6. Preguntas? Thank you! Gracias!

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