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Punto de Gracia Church in Cochabamba, Bolivia takes the whole gospel to impoverished communities in the Andes: distributing the Bible in Quechua, supporting health care, basic human needs and education, and bringing awareness to the very special, endemic, and threatened Cochabamba mountain finch Poospiza garleppi through environmental education and research.
Find Punto de Gracia on Facebook.
Centro Gênesis is also active in the field of conservation, restoring the forest cover where it is located, with an emphasis on more than a thousand specimens of Brazilwood Paubrasilia echinata. The results have already been published in Brazil and Mexico.
Find Centro Gênesis at www.centrogenesis.com.br and on Instagram.
Building upon years of previous relationship with the river and its people, in 2020 Camila and Bruno Landim started EcoVila Teshuvah. The eco-friendly church building is made of bamboo and other local materials. Permaculture and literacy are taught as part of Christian discipleship. They’re looking at ecotourism and agroforestry to relieve the pressure on the river’s ecosystem, and host volunteers and Mission school interns who leave with a deeper understanding of integral mission.
For part of the year, the Landim family are back in the city, where they preach in traditional churches on the theology of creation care.
Follow EcoVila Teshuvah on Instagram.
FEPAS continues using the environmental education manual which it co-published with A Rocha Brazil in 2015 (curriculum, teachers’ manual). Every project federated in FEPAS has a commitment to teach these materials every 2-3 years, to reach new cohorts of children and young people in their constituency.
Find FEPAS on www.fepas.org.br and follow them on Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook.
Green Pastures actively supports research by scientists and students from Campina Grande Federal University and runs regular guided trails for schools, churches and community groups. They monitor local wildlife using surveys and camera traps, and share the results on Facebook.
Find Verdes Pastos on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ReservaVerdesPastos
The Way seeks to promote a better world by raising the quality of life of children and youth in situations of social vulnerability through education, sustainability, culture, leisure, sports and faith. Under the guidance of the verse “Do everything in love (1 Cor 16:14)”, they work in partnership with local stakeholders through the training of trainers, themed workshops and urban gardening clubs.
The urban gardening clubs are agroecological spaces / moments that aim to instigate resistance and insistence on rethinking territories in a way that values conservation, people and sharing, countering excessive accumulation, violence and exclusion. In short, caring for all creation.
Follow The Way at www.projecttheway.com.br and on Instagram.
SHINE was founded in 2002.
AADA has carried out conservation education, monitoring mangrove forests, and monitoring bush meat and non-timber forest product trade. Currently it’s focusing on combatting the illegal hardwood trade through environmental crime training sessions for magistrates, government workers, and community leaders, the promotion of non-timber forest products, and the collection of tree samples to improve product traceability and indirectly help with environmental crime prosecutions.
Due to the ongoing civil war, AADA has relocated to Yaoundé, where they are also helping with the Jesuit University Centre and planning education sessions on Laudato Sì’.
They are currently engaged with a mangrove replanting project in several communities in the Maberta–Bimbia creek, and in clean up from plastic waste in rivers, beaches, and other coastal ecosystems. They regularly collect plastic from rivers which pass through the Limbé Botanical Garden, considered the second largest garden in Africa.
Although headquartered in the English-speaking Southwest Region of Cameroon, Light For Nature’s members speak both English and French. They aim to be an instrument of peace within the country by acting towards nature conservation both in the Anglophone and the Francophone regions, particularly in the Douala region.
You may find them on www.lightfornature.org and on Facebook.
Plateau Perspectives has five distinctive characteristics:
Find Plateau Perspectives at plateauperspectives.org and on Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Based in the Araucanía region of southern Chile, the foundation works in partnership with schools, churches and university groups to create spaces and activities to care for local people and ecosystems.
Currently the organisation works in three areas. Through hospitality, hosting people in the ‘Casa Retoño’ where a simple lifestyle is modelled, sharing the kitchen and the table, creating retreats of contemplation and rest. Through environmental education, offering workshops for various groups and ages, at their premises or visiting groups in their cities, to learn about the nature that surrounds us and reflect on our role as stewards of this wonderful planet. Through conservation, managing an orchard and a small-scale nursery of native trees for reforestation.
Find them on https://retono.cl/ or on Instagram.
Their current environmental activities include a local community composting project, and a plan to recover one of Casa Adobe’s most neglected ‘neighbours’: the Virilla River, which, coming down from its source in the cloud forests, flows through densely populated areas, where it is impacted by sewage, litter, and the degradation of riverine forest. To this end, Casa Adobe is reengaging the community with the river by promoting visits and liaising with other stakeholders.
Visit Casa Adobe at casaadobe.org and on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.
They organized and hosted an international creation care conference in June 2022, and are planning coastal and river clean-ups and a Christian organic farming community, as well as looking at a practical project for children’s Sunday school education.
Find them on Instagram or Facebook, and sign up for their emails.
Hoffnung have been sending regular newsletters informing about Creation Care activities and events, and about A Rocha International, since 2015. They’ve been getting the word out in churches and Christian events, notably by participating in the Freakstock Festival since 2013, where they’ve been leading Creation Care workshops, field outings, and consulting for the festival on environmental issues such as the implementation of a reuse system for dishes and cutlery.
They are forming regional and thematic workgroups in several areas such as an ‘Exploring creation’ project, Creation Care Theology, Communications, Prayer, and Food and Agriculture.
Find them on Instagram and Facebook, and see their email contact details.
AGIB was started in 2022 as a response to the progressive loss of the Guinean montane forests and Western Guinean lowland forests, the advancement of the savanna, the drying up of watercourses and the impoverishment of soils in the region of N’Zérékoré.
Its leaders are putting their own knowledge in climate change, biodiversity, and ecosystem services in addressing these issues. Actions planned include setting up Nature Clubs in village schools, raising awareness on deforestation, living hedges, and insect pollinators, and developing sustainable income generation as an alternative to detrimental land management practices.
Find them at yappenda.eco, Instagram, and Bluesky.
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Founded in 2021, Faith and Hope is dedicated to promoting sustainable, equitable, and participatory development, as well as social welfare and social justice.
In 2023, Faith and Hope collected over 1,000 kg of plastics. They also raised awareness about the health risks of plastics and the link between plastics and climate change. They trained more than 40 people on how to work to end plastic pollution in their own communities, educated more than 200 people through their campaigns, and their speakers group (consisting of staff and volunteers) have given presentations to more than 110 people.
Faith and Hope is looking at expanding its coastal conservation work from clean-ups to mangrove planting.
Connect with Faith and Hope on Facebook.
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