With its headquarters in Santarém, PSA has an interdisciplinary staff composed of doctors, agronomists, communicators, artists, educators of many technical areas, who regularly visit the communities realizing programs of Community Organization; Health, Agronomy and Forest Production; Education & Culture; Gender; Children & Teenagers, Popular Communication and Participative Research.
 

PSA staff and volunteers on a boat trip to the communities

 

Arrival of the boat and the children on the beach

The art, the playfulness and the communication are the main tools of education, participation and mobilization of PSA.

With the Mocoronga Popular Communication Network, youths' groups are qualified as reporters for the production of newspapers, videos and community radio programs in a permanent exchange of information and knowledge. The Gran Circus Mocorongo is among the main activities developed (Mocorongo is the denomination given to who is born in Santarém/PA). 

Starting from Santarém/ PA, the volunteers will take a boat trip to the riverside communities of the rivers Amazon, Tapajós and Arapiuns. The participants will be in direct contact with nature, they will take walks to igarapés (flooded areas), trails in the forest and observe the sunset in the river. They will participate in discussions about community organization, getting to know every day of the trip practical examples that were worked out in the visited places.

The volunteers will work integrated to the PSA staff in their trips on the rivers Amazon, Tapajós and Arapiuns.

ACTIVITIES THAT CAN BE DONE BY THE VOLUNTEERS
 

SECTORIAL NUCLEUS	ACTIVITIES
1- Participative Community Research	In agreement with the needs specified in the development of PSA
2- Support to echo-tourism programs	- Interpretative trails. - Community Routes
3- Support to Health programs	- Vaccination Campaigns. - Community service. - Basic Sanitation Campaigns.
4- Support to the education and communication programs	- Environmental education. - Campaigns. - Informal education.
5- Support to Forestation and Generation of Income programs	- Community vegetable gardens. - Aviculture. - Systems of Fruits Improvement.
6- Support to the gender subject	- Reproductive Women’s Health. - Craftsmanship.

 

Doctor examining a girl

 

Preparation of manioc flour

 

Children's meeting for educational and recreational activities

PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

The volunteers will be inserted in the sectorial nucleus that will evaluate their activities in agreement with the goals to be reached in each program. They will be appraised, among other, on the following aspects:

- Number and type of activities developed;
- Level of interest and direct pledge (dedication);
- Integration with the tended communities;
- Ecological behavior on all occasions (the volunteer will be subject to the conduct norms practiced by PSA);
- Integration with the other volunteers, employees, technical and attendance staff (PSA and Iko Poran);
- - Number of people tended with the activities done by the volunteers (% of increase compared with periods previous to the volunteers' participation);
- Improvement of the indicators that compose Human Development Index - HDI (health, education and income).

ITINERARY OF THE TRIP
 

Day	Place	Foreseen Activities	Overnight Stay
1st.	Arrival in Santarém	-Transport to Pousada (Inn) Alter do Chão - PAC - Night Free	PAC
2nd.	Alter do Chão – Urucureá	Community Meeting (Urucureá)	Boat
3rd.	Urucureá	Presentation of the cestarias (basket making) - Cultural night - Bajara ride on the Amazon river (Marimarituba) - Other activities proposed by the community	Boat or Community
4th.	Urucureá – Ponta Grande	Community lunch - Piracaia, fishing (Ponta Grande)	Boat
5th.	Ponta Grande - Suruacá	Meeting with leaderships - Folk dances presentation	Boat
6th.	Suruacá	Walk on the community's urban area - Suruacá Trail – Sta. Quitéria, accompanied with children - Bath and games with the children in the Sta. Quitéria’s igarapé - Gran Circo Mocorongo and Dancing Party of the Tacky	Boat or Community
7th.	Suruaca –  Maguari/Jamaraquá	Beach and free time (afternoon)	Boat or Jamaraquá House
8th.	Maguari/Jamaraquá /Alter do Chão	Tauari trail - Visit to the rubber leather factory - Trip to Alter do Chão	Boat or Jamaraquá House
9th.	Alter do Chão	Beach and free time - evaluation of the program	PAC
10th.	Alter do Chão / Santarém	Return to Santarém - Transport to airport	Departure

PROGRAM FEE
 
Individual Price: US$ 1.234,07

The Programs must be scheduled and paid for 60 days before starting. Iko Poran incurs on substantial expenses for project preparation and purchase of the materials and/or supplies that will be used, besides the analysis of candidates' profiles seeking the elaboration of his/her Work Plan for the planned activities.