CERES Global facilitates a number of project groups which meet on a monthly basis at CERES. These project groups include:

Environmental Education
Collaborate with teachers in Australia, India and Indonesia to share ideas on culturally appropriate, hands-on environmental education. Also, help to develop resources that can be used in professional development sessions with educators during cultural exchange programs.

Past projects include:

  • Sharing CERES’ environmental education programs with educators and looking at how similar ideas might be implemented at the Sukunan’s Community Waste Management Program in Jogjakarta, Indonesia
  • Climate change education workshops with environmental educators in Nadukuppam, Tamil Nadu, India
  • Modeling hand-on sustainability education activities with environmental educators and students in Nadukuppam, Tamil Nadu and Lohara, Maharashtra, India
  • Introducing sustainability education curriculum frameworks to educators in Nadukuppam, Tamil Nadu, India
  • Cultural exchange workshops with children and young people in schools in Lohara and Pal, Maharashtra, India
  • Assisting in the development of a planting guide for school and home-based ethno-medicinal gardens (herbal home remedies) in Nadukuppam, Tamil Nadu, India
  • Developing curriculum for teachers in the area of health and nutrition in Nadukuppam, Tamil Nadu, India
  • Working with teachers at the Nadukuppam School, Tamil Nadu, India to develop a kitchen garden based on permaculture principles

Women’s Development and Health
Network with and fundraise for Women’s Empowerment workers in remote Indian villages. Also, undertake initiatives to support Women’s Enterprise Development and Youth Training programs in remote communities.

Past projects include:

  • Assisting the facilitation of strategic planning sessions with women’s self help groups in Nadukuppam, Tamil Nadu, India
  • Documenting changes in the daily lives of women in Nadukuppam, Tamil Nadu, India
  • Developing marketing strategies for the sale of spirulina being grown in Nadukuppam, Tamil Nadu, India
  • Providing grant funding to women’s self help groups for the purchase of a de-husking machine to assist in income generating projects in Maharashtra, India

Climate Change and Environmental Technologies
Research and fundraise for the implementation of appropriate environmental technologies in village communities. Network with Australian and Indian based organisations to share ideas on sustainable low-tech solutions for ameliorating climate change, sanitation issues and deforestation.

Other Past Projects

  • Working with staff to create better organisational management systems, and marketing of their services and organisation at Sukunan’s Community Waste Management Project in Jogjakarta and PPLH Puntondo in Makassar Indonesia
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