Corrina, putting together the gas exit valve from used tyres

After more than a few months of not seeing our Youth Environment Group friends from Papaturro in El Salvador, I decided to program in a priority visit at the beginning of August to go and stay for a few days. Our goal for this trip was to continue capacity-building with the group, work one-on-one with some of the older youth on their “pathways to sustainability” plans, build our first demonstration Biodigestor for the community, and talk to the group about our plans to run a Youth Lead Climate Congress in November. I also had the opportunity to bring Jasmin (our Project Manager running the Recycled Recreation project with children from the Dorothy Byrne Casa del Nino), so that she could get to know this fantastic group of kids and share some of her work in Guatemala with them. All that, and of course I was also very keen to talk to the youth about the progress they had made on their various projects since Seres last visit.

Jaz and Antonio, preparing the biodigestor bag

With this schedule, it was bound to be a busy few days and without a doubt, we made the most of every minute we were there. Having someone else from Seres along was also a great affirmation that these kids were indeed as good as I thought they were! Action-packed, hard work and as rewarding as always, here is an update from the field on the Comité Ecológico Jóvenes en Lucha de Papaturro:

FIELD UPDATE FROM YOUTH ENVIRONMENT GROUP