Educating for Sustainability
We focus on raising awareness among new generations about the importance of sustainable development and proper waste management. This is essential education for 21st-century students. We accomplish this through educational initiatives that allow students to develop key competencies while solving environmental challenges through hands-on experimentation.
Clean Planet Mission
With a partnership with the City Council of San Roque (Cádiz) in 2014 and 2015, the Playa Limpia and Campo Limpio initiatives were carried out to raise awareness on taking care of our coasts and rural areas through recycling workshops at local schools and beaches.
Efforts that evolved in 2016 by incorporating new technologies into awareness-raising. This is how Planeta Limpio, an environmental education programme aimed at students between 8 and 12 years of age, was created in partnership with LEGO® Education and its hands-on methodology. Students develop skills such as flexibility, teamwork and critical thinking while solving missions to take care of their environment, with the help of robots. To date, more than 10,000 children have taken part in the various training activities.
The programme is now also being implemented in Piecitos Colorados schools. Through the Planeta Limpio platform, 28 teachers from thirteen educational centres have already received training and have since brought what they learned into the classroom, reaching over 790 students.
My Footprint on the Planet
Being aware of our role as a Foundation to promote environmental awareness, this year we have developed a new pilot project in the Piecitos schools of Colombia: My Footprint on the Planet.
Together with our partner Agenda del Mar, we have designed an educational booklet with five major themes related to the UN SDGs 6, 12, 14, and 15: freshwater, oceans, biodiversity, responsible consumption, and climate change. As "teachers" to bring this knowledge to classrooms in a playful way, we have relied on a team of 60 Prosegur volunteers from all business areas and with diverse backgrounds. Our professionals have received online training and prepared experiments to convey the importance of maintaining a balanced planet and our shared responsibility.
Thanks to their solidarity commitment, 634 Colombian children now have better education in sustainability.
