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Three new schools join the Amazon Guardian Schools Network (the AGSN) this year: the Escola Heura, in Barcelona; the Escola Castell Ciuró, in Molins de Rei; and CEIP San José de Calasanz, in Yecla (Murcia), which is the first outside Catalonia.
With them, the Network goes from eleven to fourteen schools: twelve in Europe and two in the Amazon.
What belonging to the Network means
The Network connects classrooms here with Indigenous schools in the Juruá valley, in the Brazilian state of Acre. Each school takes part as far as it can: a single workshop, a term or the whole year. There are letters and drawings between classrooms, videoconferences when possible, classroom materials and visits by Indigenous leaders to the schools. At the end of the year, the school receives the Network plaque.
No two schools do it the same way, and they don’t need to. What they share is a way of working: knowledge travels in both directions.
The same happens on the other side. In the Amazon the work is training Indigenous teachers, digital inclusion, materials of their own and environmental workshops. What the schools there learn reaches the classrooms here, and the other way round.
Why it matters
A school that joins the Network stops talking about the Amazon as a distant place seen in pictures. It starts talking with specific people, who have a name, a language and a history of their own. That changes what pupils understand by diversity, by territory and by climate justice.
A social base to sustain it
The Network is growing, and we want it to grow sustainably. Today it is sustained mainly by grants, awarded year by year and applied for again every time.
That is why we are looking for a social base: people who support the project with a monthly contribution, however small. With that we can plan a whole school year: commit to the workshops, prepare the materials and sustain the training of Indigenous teachers without waiting to see what comes through.
There are other ways to take part too: linking a school, volunteering, or opening a door from an institution or a company.
How the Network works · The schools here · The schools in the Amazon
