Volunteer Program

Volunteer activities
- Reforestation: a forest restoration model in the Atlantic forest, which includes education, advocacy and large scale community involvement, this project needs most help during the wet season
- Agroforestry: an agroforestry project where we are attempting to increase the bio-diversity of a partly shaded monoculture coffee plantation, while creating a new sustainable model of coffee production.
- Vegetable garden, (analog agroforestry is an approach to sustainable "farming in the forest") To enable interesting food production dynamics with natural regeneration of forests.
- Creating a medicinal plant garden and workshops for local communities.
- Promoting interest in local communities through environmental educational activities with local schools.
- Land Stewardship where sustainable management, rather than absolute protection or preservation, of natural resources is the objective.
-Trail maintenance – year round. We have a system of forest trails which are used by researchers, schoolchildren and visitors to Iracambi.

The work we do here is mainly based around the research and education of reforestation as well as the reforestation itself.
Areas you can help in are as follows: agro ecology, agro forestry, working to protect and survey water sources, volunteering in the tree nursery, helping maintain the vegetable garden and the medicinal plants garden, trails and assisting in the education programme with local children;
You are welcome to help with any of these projects that you are interested in to help develop skills in areas that you may not have had a chance to discover yet or to use your skill base to help assist in these projects already running.
You’ll be saving forests and changing lives.

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