Achievements in Brazil
Brazil Coastal Community Project
This project helped to protect the devastated Atlantic Coastal Rainforest by working with community grassroots associations. Quest4Change joined conservation specialists Fauna and Flora International and local Brazilian NGO Amainan Brasil in 2005 to help protect the endangered forests. Quest continued to work directly with Amainan on various social projects which continued year round.
Achievements
- Planted and mapped over 2000 trees
- Constructed a floating research centre
- Employed 3 capoeira teachers to instruct hundreds of local children for two years
- Funded a space for the community carpentry
- Provided tools and materials for the community carpentry
- Supported the local theatre group
- Renovated and repaired the Amainan ‘Theatre’ Boat
- Provided safety equipment for the Amainan ‘Theatre’ Boat
- Taught 90 local people English through informal English classes
- Provided income for 20 families through a replanting and tree adoption programme
- Provided training and jobs for members of the local community
