Initiatives worth knowing

_ – Non profit enlarges its economic support base
_ – Recycled paper and cardboard saves 5 million trees in 4 years in Madrid
_ – Economic and financial literacy programNon profit enlarges its economic support base

Banco de Alimentos Foundation (FBA) has launched a project to build a 10,000 square meters storage facility in the locality of Benavidez, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The deposit will be rented to different companies in the area that are in need for this service. Money collected from the rent will strengthen the economic support base of the foundation, whose goal is to assist families suffering from hunger and undernourishment by avoiding the destruction of edible food. The foundation has enlisted logistics and construction companies as well as investors in order to carry out this initiative. ( [Link->http://www.bancodealimentos.org.ar] )

Recycled paper and cardboard saves 5 million trees in 4 years in Madrid

In the last 4 years, the municipality of Madrid has recovered 440,000 tons of paper and cardboard derived from the collection of 5,905 blue containers and 15 clean points spread around the city streets. Madrid citizens have thus contributed to avoiding that 4,96 million trees be felled and saved 2,48 million cubic meters of water and 2,125 megawatts of energy. ( [Link->http://www.desarrollointeligente.org/desarrollo_inteligente/VisNot?id=4276c8e9f099e0865acc5feb514bad9 ] )

Economic and financial literacy program

Through this program, the Central Bank of Argentina aims at integrating economic and financial concepts that are related to everyday life into the educational system. The program takes on the challenge of introducing these concepts into the contents of subjects such as Ethic and Citizen Education, Social Sciences, Mathematics and Language. It uses a pedagogic approach based on active and meaningful learning geared to generating a change in the students’ cognitive structures. It promotes cross sectional aspects of concepts such as responsibility, respect, solidarity, which underlie citizens’ economic decisions.

Leave a comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *