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Opportunity summary

Term length

5/1/2024 - 4/30/2025

Application window

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Location

Culebra, Puerto Rico

Hourly pay equivalent

$12.00

Project summary

Promote healthy futures through gardening on weekly visits to children at schools and day care center and increase food security for our residents in Culebra while carrying out a Cine Siembra's and cooking workshops every month to provide an opportunity to cultivate a healthy relationship between harvesting and consuming nutritious food.

Opportunity description

3 positions to lead activities that offer the opportunity to work cooperatively in groups, learn about science and nutrition, and even create art and stories about gardening and gardens and hands-on experiences and workshops is to have a positive impact in their food choices, increase desire to adapt good nutritional habits, improve low-budget cooking skills, and incorporate what they harvest for an improved household food security, while maintaining our community gardens.

Benefits

  • None

Requirements and qualifications

Requirements

Significant outdoors activities that require health to climb, walk, lift and a high school diploma preferred. 

Preferred qualifications

Experience in agro-ecology gardening methods, strong team work.

Opportunity details

Focus area

  • Natural resource preservation and conservation
  • Reforestation or afforestation
  • Urban agriculture
  • Recycling and composting programs
  • Environmental justice
  • Disaster preparedness recovery and response
  • Economic development support for energy transition communities
  • Climate smart agriculture and sustainable farming
  • Soil and water conservation
  • Farm to school initiatives
  • Community gardens
  • Food waste reduction
  • Grant-writing and fundraising
  • Volunteer recruitment and management
  • Environmental education and training

Work environment

  • Team based
  • Rural
  • Outdoor