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This is the EARTHGARDEN ART PROGRAM run by the Amazongarden Children. BOLIVIA, 1998
The sembradores ( "planters” or “ sowers”) were established in 1990 by a group of kids in an art class given by Daniel with an interest in saving their local biodiversity. They planted trees and cleaned up pollution. The teams grew, recruiting visiting tourists to help them. But despite praise from as high as the president of Bolivia, their efforts were in vain, as there was no real interest by the local authorities or press to help, and the areas they cleaned soon returned to unsightly garbage. The kids became interested in the broader aspects of a society of sustainable-beauty and how to establish it. This 36 page website, made between 1998 and 2002, is their recruitment of Daniel’s philosophy and English skills to present an alternative culture to the world. It’s a chronicle of a heroic attempt of the children of eastern Bolivia to save their jungle. The children have gone unrecognized and the jungle they tried so desperately to preserve has largely been destroyed.
Below, kids from a small rural village experience a PC for the first time. The computer, loaded with useful programs, was donated to the Sembradores by a kind-hearted engineer who employed Daniel as English teacher.
Left, Angelica, first secretary of the sembradores. Below that, members with pet monkey.
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Where life is simple and relaxed, kids plant the seeds of a new society. A NEW CULTURE IS BORN !
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