M S Swaminathan Research Foundation - MSSRF Each Child A Scientist (ECAS)
M S Swaminathan Research Foundation - MSSRF Each Child A Scientist (ECAS)
Project Brief:
Project Type: Community Awareness Programs (description)
Primary Focus: other (description)
Supporting Chapter Contact: UFlorida
Project Type: Community Awareness Programs (description)
Primary Focus: other (description)
Secondary Focus: other
Area: RuralSupporting Chapter Contact:
Status: Support ended.
Project Steward: Shivashankar Halan
Project Partner(s): Girigan Gopi
Other Contacts:
Project Address: , M S Swaminathan Research Foundation,Community Agrobiodiversity Centre, Puthurvayal P.O.,,Kalpetta,
Kerala 673121
Tel: 091-4936-204477
Stewarding Chapter: UFlorida
Project Steward: Shivashankar Halan
Project Partner(s): Girigan Gopi
Other Contacts:
Project Address: , M S Swaminathan Research Foundation,Community Agrobiodiversity Centre, Puthurvayal P.O.,,Kalpetta,
Kerala 673121
Tel: 091-4936-204477
Stewarding Chapter: UFlorida
| Dec 2012 | UFlorida | USD 5000 |
| Feb 2011 | Cincinnati | USD 4000 |
Total = $9000
Asha is supporting the ECAS programme, that is intended for children and youths in the rural and tribal settings to involve them to maintain biodiversity conservation traditions, increasing the quality of learning in environmental education, learn modern science and technologies
a. Orient the children and youths to nourish the habit of conserving biodiversity and to nurture a sense of relationship with nature and to develop an eco-sensitive generation for conserving the biodiversity for the posterity
b. Revitalize fading conservation traditions by making them understand the local biodiversity, ecosystems and traditional knowledge associated with it
c. Adopt suitable pedagogical methodologies to make learning a joyful experience and thereby attract the dropouts to go back to school and resume their formal education
d. Develop a resource centre for children for imparting knowledge about biodiversity and climate change
b. Revitalize fading conservation traditions by making them understand the local biodiversity, ecosystems and traditional knowledge associated with it
c. Adopt suitable pedagogical methodologies to make learning a joyful experience and thereby attract the dropouts to go back to school and resume their formal education
d. Develop a resource centre for children for imparting knowledge about biodiversity and climate change
M S Swaminathan Research Foundation is a non-profit research organization and was established in 1988. M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) has all along been developing and following a pro-nature, pro-poor, pro-women and pro-sustainable on-farm and non-farm livelihoods through appropriate ecotechnology and knowledge empowerment.
M S Swaminathan Research Foundation is carrying out research and development in six major thematic areas such as:
* Coastal Systems Research
* Biodiversity
* Biotechnology
* Ecotechnology
* Food Security
* Information, Education and Communication
The MSSRF Center at Kalpetta, Wayanad has been closely involved in working with the tribal people in the Wayanad district and educating them about the importance of bio-diversity conservation and the necessity for reviving traditional pro-nature agricultural methods.
M S Swaminathan Research Foundation is carrying out research and development in six major thematic areas such as:
* Coastal Systems Research
* Biodiversity
* Biotechnology
* Ecotechnology
* Food Security
* Information, Education and Communication
The MSSRF Center at Kalpetta, Wayanad has been closely involved in working with the tribal people in the Wayanad district and educating them about the importance of bio-diversity conservation and the necessity for reviving traditional pro-nature agricultural methods.