Seres
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- Commenced: 01/12/2010
- Submitted: 31/05/2011
- Last updated: 01/08/2012
- Location: Tecpan, Chimaltenango, Guatemala
- Website: www.projectseres.org
- Climate zone: Sub-tropical
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Seres
Project Type
Rural, Community, Philanthropic aid, Demonstration, EducationalProject Summary
The Seres Centre for Climate Change Education and Sustainable Development is based in Guatemala. It combines innovative community empowerment programs with climate change education to engage with locals and help them to understand the environmental challenges that they are facing, and works with communities using permaculture, appropriate technology and natural construction techniques to help them to build more resilient, sustainable communities.
Project Description
The Seres Centre for Climate Change Education and Sustainable Development is a community-benefit (aka non-profit) project located in Tecpan, Guatemala.
The project is located on a 145-acre property alongside project partners the Project Somos Children's Village (an eco-sustainable village for orphaned and abandoned children) and will also incorporate a number of social enterprises that will contribute to the financial sustainability of the projects.
Our Mission is to facilitate sustainable, grassroots community development and climate change adaptation through education, working side-by-side with at-risk communities to restor our Earth and create a thriving, just and sustainable world. Our Vision of the Seres Centre is help communities build resilience to climate change by providing them with tools and knowledge in a creative and innovative environment where people, ideas and resources come together to find solutions that are socially just and environmentally sustainable.
After working for more than 3 years in Guatemala and El Salvador with individual communities and groups, we made the decision to expand our operations so that we could provide our programs on a level that could match the large-scale adaptation and education that is needed amongst rural communities in this region.
The Seres Centre will be a demonstration and educational campus, an example of sustainable living applicable to people from all walks of life. It will include building methods such as super-adobe, bamboo, straw-bale and eco-brick; appropriate technology such as biodigestors, solar, wind, hydro, water filters, ram pumps and more. It will also be a permaculture demonstration and education farm, providing a mix of courses for both locals and international participants.
We are always looking for proactive partners and people willing to get involved, collaborate and share. If you would like to find out more about the project please visit the website or send us a message through my profile.