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CAUSE: Science Nursery School
A RURAL & URBAN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN
The YAAKUNAJ Initiative is an innovative and multi-faceted project designed to address environmental and social issues by cultivating while fostering a deeper connection among communities and their natural surroundings. Our comprehensive approach integrates environmental conservation, educational training and cultural exchange to create a sustainable and harmonious environment for all parties involved.
In symbiosis with Boundless Foundation, Fundacion Mexanoia, NacaOMe Foundation and Maya Environmental Education and Research Center our Science Nursery School; is a rural school project for children, in which an approach with nature is provided, through an educational holistic program and scientific workshops on Botany and Entomology, in a close relationship with art.
In Yaakunaj Kaanbal we have a small cave to explore, a plant nursery and a small interactive museum for children to nourish.
OBJECTIVES:
- Nature and holistic education for children
- Reduce deforestation
- Exchange of local indigenous knowledge
- Biosphere regenerative agriculture
- Cultural exchange and tourism
- Children as environmental guides and ambassadors
WHAT?
1 to 3 years scholarship program, obteining certified and not certified Curriculum Vitae by governments or international organizations for working professionaly
by building the foundations future of the students knowledge.
WHERE?
We are starting in our Yaakunaj Kaanbal center in Ejido Juarez community. Located in Quintana Roo State 1 hour by car from Cancun and Playa del Carmen cities, to later replicate this same project in other communities.
HOW?
Starting since 2020 with 1st stage online education with teachers in place to experience activities with small classroom group, until we build the main 2 hectars school by 2026.
- Nature Encounter experiences
- Flora and fauna sightseeing
- Botany & Entomology
- Photography
- Naturalista Platform alliance
WHEN?
Every month since 2012, we became stronger in 2023 by building community with other for-profit and non-profit organizations, gaining stronger support with donated land to build on 2 hectares the appropriate facilities and equipment for the online and also on-site educational program.
Carry out the opening and formally inaugurate The Scientific Innovation Center in 2026 as a full-time hackathon experience,<dedicated to the preservation, research and care of waters, inspired by the AAA manifesto.
WHIT WHOM?
The Science School Project is a groundbreaking educational initiative, brought to life through the collaborative efforts of the Boundless Foundation and Fundación Mexanoia. These two organizations, each with a deep commitment to education and social betterment, have joined forces to create a transformative learning environment.
The Boundless Foundation, renowned for its global reach in building and establishing educational centers, brings its expertise in creating sustainable and impactful schools. This expertise is complemented by Fundación Mexanoia’s local insights and innovative approaches to education, particularly in integrating a unique holistic educational program.
Together, these partners are setting a new standard for educational efforts where children’s self value, art, science and discovery are at the forefront. Their joint endeavor in the Science School Project stands as a beacon of innovation and hope, aiming to inspire young minds and shape the present of education.
Beneficiaries and Social Information
Kids and teens will have a new vision of their social environment, knowing that they are fundamental part of a cave system, in which we co-exist and co-inhabit with other living beings and with the vital element: water.
Sustainable Model
Our project is founded by non-profits and social groups of volunteers that contribute through interdisciplinary activities to the education of children and teenagers. Thanks to Urban Cenotes organization, they will receive a formal training on the importance of caves specially of our karst system in the Yucatan Peninsula.
Potential for scale-up
We are beginning our project with kids of Riviera Maya & Mayakaan suburb areas, but it is meant to be replicated in other sectors where there is presence of cave systems. At the moment we have already registered 300 caves in all Playa del Carmen suburbs.
Permanent Solution
Learn how to protect and value sinkhole and cave systems is a big first step in our Riviera Maya & Mayakaan community. In order for society to stop “confusing” those natural beautiful places with trash cans, or with empty spaces to plan massive construction projects, will require collaboration, consciousness and work.
We need to understand that water is being polluted through these underground systems.
If we understand that, then we have hope.
If we start acting now, and teaching future/present generations, then… we do have hope on real changes.
The Environmental Education & Research Center in Maya land
Our ongoing actions!
LVI National Congress of Entomology
LVI National Congress of Entomology
LVI National Congress of Entomology
Children's participation with a presentation on cave bugs of the karstic system
Mexican Society of Entomology
LVI National Congress of Entomology
LVI National Congress of Entomology
Children's integration as members of the entomological community of Mexico
XV Mexican National Congress of Speleology
III Latin American and Caribbean Congress on Bats
III Latin American and Caribbean Congress on Bats
We want our neighbors to learn about the caves and get to know the cave fauna, for this reason we gathered a group of children “the Bio-Speleologists of the Neighborhood” in which we photograph all the bugs that live in the cave and record our observations to the Naturalista platform, so we learn the scientific names and important data of each species and contributes to raising awareness to value the caves. In Cueva Jaguar we have found creatures such as bats, the Mayan cricket, spiders, little frogs, and cereques and now we do a biological inventory of other caves in the neighborhood. “
Hakory Kukulzen 6 years old
III Latin American and Caribbean Congress on Bats
III Latin American and Caribbean Congress on Bats
III Latin American and Caribbean Congress on Bats
Children's participation in the third Latin American and Caribbean Congress on Bats, having a forum for young people and children interested in scientific research and its results
BECAUSE UNION IS STRENGHT, in greatfullness to Our Partners
Boundless Foundation
- Boundless Foundation has made remarkable strides in the field of education, having built seven schools in Honduras and one in Guatemala, each exemplifying their successful and impactful educational model. Their efforts are expanding, with two more schools currently under construction in Honduras and Kenya.
- In addition to these initiatives, the Boundless Foundation is actively supporting and co-creating with the Science Nursery School, a project that resonates with their commitment to nurturing early education through a focus on art, consciousness and scientific learning and exploration.
- The success of these endeavors is heavily reliant on the support from Impact Investors. The Boundless Foundation’s vision of transforming education and empowering young minds across the globe is a journey shared with its supporters and benefactors. Their collaboration is vital in continuing to break educational barriers and illuminate the lives of children with knowledge and opportunity.
MEXANOIA Foundation
- Mexanoia is a non-profit organization founded by 3 sisters, dedicated to the care of vulnerable girls and boys highlighting education and holistic health as the most important factors for its operation. For “vulnerable” it primarily refers to cases of sexual abuse, domestic violence, child maltreatment, neglect, trafficking, and prostitution.
- For 10 years, Mexanoia has assisted dozens of vulnerable children in Mexico, providing pedagogical workshops, regularization classes, holistic therapies and a unique educational program. Mexanoia’s vision is to facilitate this program, for institutions, organizations, community centers, schools, and foundations around the world, so that it can be implemented with children in vulnerable situations. It was there that the LUMINARE® Holistic Educational Program (person of light) by Mexanoia emerged, inspired by alternative methodologies of holistic education.
- Mexanoia is fully supporting the Science Nursery School project for the implementation of the program.
NacaOMe Foundation
Art is Life
Art is Life & Life is Art, it is the maximum expression of our holistic soul to communicate emotions and feelings from our deepest and sacred existence.
By expressing our inside art, we release our spiritual part into the matter.
In Spanish, “Artesano” is what we call a person that makes artistic hand-crafted pieces. Similarly, “Arte Sano”, can mean that Art is healthy, therefore “Arte Sana”. Art heals and art is a healing vehicle to enlighten our inner child and let go of fear, frustration, pain, passion and even joy. It is a means to balance the unlimited possibilities of negative or positive vibrations, from duality to polarity to integration.
Art in Life is a playground state of consciousness, to embrace our inner child and co-create magical spaces in our personal atmosphere to share the Art of Life and life as a poem.
“The spirit will speak for our culture”
The Maya Environmental Education and Research Center, MEER
- It was stablishwed and 1st started in 2006 as a link between Mayan villages of northen Quintana Roo , México, their schools and families; with educators, volunteers, tourist, entrepreneurs from around the World. For over a decade, the MEER center has provided several environmental education workshops for school children and their parents. At least once a year, a group of students from other country visit the center to share this educational experience, and learn more on biodiversity, and climate change.
- Sustainable Community Program. Holistic vision of wellness and its correlation with the human impact on the ecosystem, creating the need of a sustainable development. We maximize social and economic benefits for local community, with a reduction of negative impacts to cultural heritage and on the environment.
- Environmental Education. Performed with the support of local school teachers. This workshop cover the most important topics that help modify daily habits and transform them in sustainable attitudes.
- Research Center. The Maya Environmental Education and Research center is a node for educators and students from around the world that visit the Riviera Maya in México to further their research in the fields of sustainability, ecology, biology, microscopy, medicine and hydrogeology.
KARST GUARDIANS
Public Assistance Institution focused on creating citizen awareness in both rural and city areas about the importance of the waters of the karstic system and its magic and fragility as an ecosystem of waters that range from the jungle to the Caribbean Sea. Being the pro-active engine of the Ancestral Aquifer Alliance