Proyecto de compost orgánico Project Partners: 1) University of Virginia2) Scouts of Bluefields3) Environmental office of the Alcaldia in Bluefields4) Bluefields Indian & Caribbean University

Composting Project

Project Goals:1) Determine which organic waste components found in Bluefields make a good

recipe for Compost2) Work with Scouts to develop a teaching campaign about composting at the

household levela) Go house to house in a pre-determined area to raise awareness of

composting

Goal 1: USE SOIL TESTING KIT

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

Possible Project Timeline1) Robin and Emma Meet with Bluefields Scout Council – July 222) Students from the University of Virginia (UVa) arrive – July 253) Students meet Scouts – July 26

1) How often do Scouts meet? When? Where?4) 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

5) Start compost test-site in specified location (BICU?)6) Students and Scouts visit the rehabilitation farm currently producing

compost7) Composting partners spend the week of August 2 to 6 doing the

household campaign8) Composting partners spend week of August 9 to 12 continuing

campaign and checking on composting recipe9) Composting partners present findings to Scout Council, Environmental

office, BICU professors, and other stakeholders on Thursday August 1210)Goodbye party at Tia Irene on Saturday August 14

Preguntas?

Thank you! Gracias!