Partner Institution:

Fundação Movimento OndAzul – OndAzul (Blue Wave Movement Foundation)

Project:

Recycling & Culture Plant - Plant

Program:

Generation of job opportunities and income, besides creating alternative solutions to reduce the problems generated on the environment by plastic residues

Objective:

Implement options for better productivity and new products research & development

Locality:

Vigário Geral community, Rio de Janeiro City

Program Detailed Information:

Partner Institution and Project

Activities that can be done by the volunteers

Project’s Communication Activities

Performance Indicators

Group Size

Accommodations and Transfers

Program Fee

Free Time

OndAzul Foundation was born in 1990, brain child of Gilberto Gil - one of most expressive and well-known Brazilian artists, environmental activist and Lula’s Government Minister of Culture (Brazil). He noticed that the water would be the main environmental theme in this beginning of XXI^st century.

Brazil produces six billion two liter plastic bottles type pet a year and less than 2% are recycled. The numbers show a negative result, taking into account the serious environmental and social problems caused by all this residue.

Vigário Geral was the community identified as a ideal space to serve as model for this project development, which associates the social subject to the environmental issue in a perfect harmony of interests.

Vigário Geral community water groups are basic contributors of Guanabara bay, and there is a very close relationship between the accumulation of this kind of trash and the problems generated by its impact on the environment

The project has as the objective the generation of job opportunities and income, besides creating alternative solutions to the plastic residues destiny problem, especially for the two liters plastic bottles type pet, through the implantation of a recycling Plant, using the bottles to produce furniture’s internal structures

Stock of furniture ready for commercialization

ACTIVITIES THAT CAN BE DONE BY THE VOLUNTEERS

The Volunteers will get to know all of the production apprenticeships and they should participate in these activities to evaluate options for better productivity. Research and new products design development can, and should be motivated. Read more...

PROJECT'S COMMUNICATION ACTIVITIES

The volunteers will also be able to participate in activities inside the community, together with project members, such as events or campaigns, visitors' attendance at Plant sections and participate in community’s external events promoted by the project.

PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

- New products development;
- Increase of the project's beneficiaries per capita income;
- Improvements on products’ conservation state and stockpiling;
- Gain in productivity obtained by improvements introduced in the whole process, as reduction of: production average time, rejected items, residues, among others;
- Increase on mobilization and capacitation activities;
- Increase of participants in the Environmental Education activities;
- Enlargement on the horizons of the community's members involved in the project, by possibly experiencing exchanges between various cultures;
- Gains increase with products' commercialization;
- Number and type of activities developed;
- Number of people benefitted with the activities done by the volunteers;
- Volunteer's interest level;
- Integration with the other volunteers and employees (Plant and Iko Poran).

GROUP SIZE

Each program can receive from 6 to 10 Participants.

ACCOMMODATIONS AND TRANSFERS

An Iko Poran representative will welcome the volunteers at Rio de Janeiro international airport, on the first day of the program. Iko Poran is responsible for all costs of terrestrial and fluvial locomotion, accommodations, meals, insurance, volunteers’ adaptation to the planned activities, attendance and performance evaluation, as specified in the general conditions of participation.

Seeking a larger integration, all the Participants should be accommodated in CENAM, where they can have breakfast and dinner. The accommodations are simple and the rooms are shared.

There will be round trip transfers to the Plant, where the activities will be accomplished during working days. The lunch will be prepared at the Plant facilities, together with the project members. In all the meals the food is simple and tasty. There will always be an Iko Poran representative accompanying the group.

PROGRAM FEE