OBRAR‘s project designed by Brian Longstaff presented to the Tenth Round of the Fund for the Americas was awarded  and will be financed by the Fund.

This project is titled “Installing solar energy in rural schools  for education and sustainable development of current and next generations of young people”.  The project combines the protection of traditional indigenous knowledge with the introduction of clean technologies to provide renewable energy and improve water quality for 100 children in Chaco Forest, Argentina.  The project is part of the environmental actions  promoted by IPIBA and its author is the environmental specialist Brian Longstaff.

Renewable and free energy is essential for rural schools. Theese schools are the focus of study and feeding of hundreds of indigenous childrenThe Fund for the Americas comes from an agreement signed in 1993 between the Governments of Argentina and the United States, in order to implement the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative whose  purpose is to encourage and support improvement in the lives of the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean through market-oriented reforms and economic growth with interrelated actions to promote debt reduction, investment reforms, sustainable use of the environment, and child survival and child development. The Facility will support these objectives through administration of debt reduction operations, for those countries with democratically elected governments.

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