This is the

EARTHGARDEN ART PROGRAM

run by the Amazongarden Princesses.

Kids of the third world will be showing the beauty of their continentīs gardens. The forests, meadows, lakes, and other favorite nature places. From Africa, Asia, South America and the Pacific Islands.

Below, kids from a small rural vilage experience a PC for the first time. The computer, loaded with useful programs, was donated to the Sembradores by a kind-hearted engineer when he bought a new one from USA. The sembradores (from "sembrar", to sow or seed, meaning sowers or planters) were established in 1992 by a local group of schoolgirls devoted to beautifying their town, with a common interest in 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 to help, and the areas they cleaned soon returned to unsightly garbage dumps. The girls became interested in the wider implications of a culture which can sustain beauty and what it would take to make such a society.

Where life is simple and relaxed, kids plant the seeds of a new society

GO TO OUR NEXT PAGE (index-2.html): Your response to this project gives worth to these children, and pride to be helping save their rainforest.