Projects: Community Environmental Development

Project Goals:

The Community Environmental Development Project (CEDP) works to increase the knowledge, skills, experience, and attitudes of community members, promoters, educators, park personnel, youth, and women's groups to adopt appropriate behaviors in their interaction with the environment and for the implementation of community projects and actions for sustainable development and protection of the natural environment.

Project Activities:

• Community rural-based tourism/ecotourism
• Brigada Verde youth environmental clubs to promote leadership development centered around environmental community actions
• Home and community organic gardening promotion
• Renewable energy and energy conservation (improved cooking stoves)

Individual Project Descriptions:

• Anthony Privetera - Bahoruco
• I live in a very small village in the province of Bahoruco, located about 1800 meters above sea level in the Sierra de Bahoruco. My project mainly consists of the construction of small nurseries for purposes of reforestation of coffee and forest species. I am also working to improve coffee production and marketing, as well as to improve agricultural techniques and soil conservation. Most of my time is spent talking to the farmers to find acceptable techniques that can be applied in our specific areas.
• Judy Torres
• I'm in the Environmental Awareness Education sector placed in the south. My project revolves around improving and maintaining my local dump site while also promoting proper waste management and educating people (mainly within the local school system) on environmental issues. I will also be working on the construction and maintenance of a nursery, which will aid the deforestation problem. As secondary projects I am creating a library and giving English classes.

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I learned that Peace Corps is not so much about quantity of projects or successes but the quality of life, about your attitude, and about how you relate to and accompany people that makes a real difference.Dan AnsonVolunteer in the Dominican Republic 2005-2007.