Guantánamo.- To ensure the development of the activities of the “Little Transformers of Climate Change” interest group, school supplies were delivered to girls and boys, who participate in this educational initiative at the Emiliano Suárez Bravo School. in Guantánamo Province.
The initiative is part of the “Climate Change Cuba” project, developed by the Italian Agency for International Development Cooperation (AICS), together with the Cuban Ministry of Agriculture (MINAG), the Institute of Agroforestry Research (INAF), the Institute of Fundamental Research in Tropical Agriculture (INIFAT), and the International Committee for the Development of the Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean (CISP).
This contribution will strengthen environmental learning spaces, where young people not only acquire knowledge about climate change but also develop practical skills to become active agents of environment care.
The materials provided—notebooks, pencils, and teaching aids—will help support environmental education from an early age, foster critical thinking and ecological awareness, monitor school projects linked to the local environment, and encourage children’s active participation in community solutions to climate change.
Following the visit to the school, the project coordinators—Porfirio Villamet, from the GAF Forestry Base Unit in Guantánamo, and Wilmer Torac, INAF researcher and coordinator of the “Cuba Climate Change” project—along with representatives from the AICS, visited the Lino Mercedes Álvarez CCS in the Reparto Obrero Neighborhood, one of the production sites, to monitor progress in planting tomato and other vegetable seeds.
These actions are part of an AICS donation distributed for crop recovery after Hurricane Oscar, which affected numerous communities in eastern Cuba. The planting is positively yielding: the first tomato crops have already begun to bear fruit, and progress is currently being made in experimentation in different soil and climate scenarios, with the aim of evaluating the resilience of the seeds and ensuring broad and sustainable production.
