Arrecife offers children's workshops to promote rooftop gardens

The Councilor for the Environment, Davinia Déniz, announces future editions after the success achieved with these proposals for families

June 4 2024 (16:58 WEST)
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The Arrecife City Council is celebrating Environment Week, which coincides with the commemoration of June 5, in relation to World Environment Day. The municipality, led by Mayor Yonathan de León, is promoting different activities focused on environmental education in the families of Lanzarote.

Within the activities of Environment Week, the Department led by Davinia Déniz, organized workshops to create gardens on the roofs with "vermicomposting techniques." The idea that drives the City Council is to "motivate the families of Arrecife to create gardens on their roofs, taking advantage of the little use that is given to the upper areas of buildings in the islands, where we also have an extraordinary climate."

Last Sunday, two learning workshops were held at the Cultural Center in the Valterra neighborhood.

Thus, within these actions, last May, the Department of the Environment promoted several workshops, traveling through various areas of the city, where children learned to recycle. And now, this past weekend, workshops were held for families to train them in creating gardens on the roofs. Davinia Déniz is satisfied with the response, and is already programming, from her Department, upcoming editions of new children's workshops with this theme.

The Department of the Environment tries to promote "domestic vermicomposting, with which it is intended to provide training in vermicomposters" and, with this, they learn to manage the food waste generated in homes, which normally ends up in the landfill, and convert it into compost or worm humus; a type of natural fertilizer for the land and agricultural soils, highly valued for its fertilizing, nutrient and environmental characteristics.

During this week, the City Council is carrying out activities such as workshops, cleaning campaigns of the seabed of the Arrecife coastline, talks, meetings, and exhibitions, to promote greater awareness and citizen participation in the protection of the environment.

 

 

Submerged Arrecife Exhibition

This Tuesday, the Arrecife City Council, through the Department of the Environment, inaugurates, with the Pastinaca Underwater Activities Club, the photographic exhibition Submerged Arrecife, a sample with underwater images of the seabed of the Arrecife marina, the flora and fauna that inhabit it and some pieces recovered from the underwater heritage. The exhibition shows photographs by Javier Madinaveitia, Eladio Frías, Rafael Mesa, Toño Gopar and Javier Alonso.

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