Transmitting to students natural and cultural values, which allow them to know the reality of Lanzarote as a Biosphere Reserve has been one of the objectives that ADERLAN has tried to achieve with its project "Education for Sustainable Development: Bases for a School Agenda 21". This initiative, which began last October, culminates with the participation of almost 1,500 students from 28 primary schools and unitary classrooms on the island.
Through a series of talks, interactive exhibitions, games and workshops, we have tried to bring the youngest of the island closer to the values of sustainable development, within an environment as favorable as Lanzarote, being a Biosphere Reserve. With this project, ADERLAN has also tried to create the bases for the future creation of School Agendas 21, oriented to the design of actions related to the environment.
This initiative is financed by the General Directorate of Educational Promotion of the Government of the Canary Islands and the Social Work of the Caja de Canarias and is a continuation of the projects "Know and Value your Natural and Cultural Resources" and "Knowing our island" that the association developed in previous years.
The culmination of this project is in the final phase, with the creation of a didactic notebook, "Lanzarote: towards a Sustainable Development", which the association will distribute free of charge to all schools, in the next academic year, and which is aimed at students in the third cycle of primary school.