JUSTIFICATION:

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The Portuguese language today occupies the fifth most spoken place on the internet and every day the interest in our language grows. Additionally, Brazil had great participation in international meetings on environmental education (EE), even for acting within the United Nations system and for covering a large slice of the planet's biodiversity. Brazil has also one of the world's largest areas of arable land.

 

Our forests have the most diverse species of trees, and have about 3000 species of birds, according to the National Institute for Research in the Amazon (INPA), giving our natural resources great value, attracting ever more scholars from around the world.

Due to its large reserves of drinking water, the Amazon is known as “the homeland of water”, but unfortunately, only a small number of our school children know this.

 

For most Brazilian students, the proper study of our fauna and flora, of our history, has historically been vetoed. This omission of knowledge generated a major socioeconomic problem that persists to this day: generalized and oppressive low self-esteem. We unconsciously feel “incompetent and inferior” in many ways, comparing ourselves to rich countries.

 

"Unlike other animals, which are only unfinished, but not historical, men know themselves to be unfinished, they are aware of their incompleteness" (FREIRE, 1987) and this factor contributed to mistaking the effect (incompetence) for the cause (deprivation of the right to study of quality, secularly stolen), that is, our “inferior self-image” is nothing more than the effect of a secular cause, “deprivation of quality study”.

Our project aims, therefore, to rescue the positive self-image of our young people and children, above all else.