This year, PEACE is tackling a big project, one of our biggest. We are partnering with Entreamigos a non-profit from San Pancho, to create four Recycle Parks in local schools in the Punta de Mita community. This is a project that you might go about one at a time as it takes quite a bit of planning, work and effort on behalf of all parties involved. But, we decided to construct all four parks within a month as the need for playgrounds in local schools is ever present.
The Recicla Parque concept was first created and launched in San Pancho (a beach town north of Sayulita in the state of Nayarit) several years ago at their primary school. The community based non-profit Entreamigos was responsible for this beautiful initiative. A "Recycle Park" is a space that is built on the grounds of a school and is constructed almost completely out of recycled and reused materials. It usually includes play areas, green spaces, tables, benches, relaxation spaces and inspiring art. First, the design team creates the layout of the park months in advance and then team members go out in search of the materials needed to carry out their creation - old fishing nets, surf boards, pangas, cable spools, used tires, and much more. Once everything is collected and ready, the date is set and the community gets ready to transform their schools!
The most amazing thing about these projects is not the idea behind them nor the groundwork - it is the actual construction day. The Recicla Parque is a community event, a community project, a community creation. Together with the organizations involved, local families and hundreds of dedicated volunteers, the parks are constructed and celebrated in a single day! Music plays, food is served, murals painted, holes dug, swings installed, tires transformed and much more. Everyone recieves a Recicla Parque t-shirt and the community joins together to transform local schools into beautiful green spaces where children can pass the day.
In 2009, PEACE and Entreamigos, along with hundreds of awesome volunteers, created the first Recicla Parque in the Punta de Mita community. It was built on the grounds of the kindergarten in Corral del Risco, a colonia of Punta de Mita. This year we are working on the primary, kindergarden and secundary schools in the Emiliano Zapata colonia of Punta de Mita as well as the primary school in Corral del Risco. We have alot of work ahead of us, but we know it will all come together and, in the end, it will have been worth every single minute!
Please stay in touch for more information and photos of this beautiful adventure!!
The Recicla Parque concept was first created and launched in San Pancho (a beach town north of Sayulita in the state of Nayarit) several years ago at their primary school. The community based non-profit Entreamigos was responsible for this beautiful initiative. A "Recycle Park" is a space that is built on the grounds of a school and is constructed almost completely out of recycled and reused materials. It usually includes play areas, green spaces, tables, benches, relaxation spaces and inspiring art. First, the design team creates the layout of the park months in advance and then team members go out in search of the materials needed to carry out their creation - old fishing nets, surf boards, pangas, cable spools, used tires, and much more. Once everything is collected and ready, the date is set and the community gets ready to transform their schools!
The most amazing thing about these projects is not the idea behind them nor the groundwork - it is the actual construction day. The Recicla Parque is a community event, a community project, a community creation. Together with the organizations involved, local families and hundreds of dedicated volunteers, the parks are constructed and celebrated in a single day! Music plays, food is served, murals painted, holes dug, swings installed, tires transformed and much more. Everyone recieves a Recicla Parque t-shirt and the community joins together to transform local schools into beautiful green spaces where children can pass the day.
In 2009, PEACE and Entreamigos, along with hundreds of awesome volunteers, created the first Recicla Parque in the Punta de Mita community. It was built on the grounds of the kindergarten in Corral del Risco, a colonia of Punta de Mita. This year we are working on the primary, kindergarden and secundary schools in the Emiliano Zapata colonia of Punta de Mita as well as the primary school in Corral del Risco. We have alot of work ahead of us, but we know it will all come together and, in the end, it will have been worth every single minute!
Please stay in touch for more information and photos of this beautiful adventure!!
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