Community environmental education: mitigation of landfills in residential areas

Abstract

Environmental pollution is one of the biggest problems that plague humanity. In Cuba, work is being done to eliminate 6 of these environmental problems; in particular the contamination and deterioration of the hygienic-sanitary conditions of the community, which contributes to the proliferation of diseases and direct affectation to the community well-being. The objective of this article is to socialize the work carried out by a group of activists made up of students from different years of the Education Foreign Languages ​​career, in the community located in constituency # 81, Reparto Álvaro Barba, neighbor of the “Rafael María de Mendive” Campus from the University of Pinar del Río "Hermanos Saíz Montes de Oca". A community intervention strategy was drawn up based on the firsts of education in values ​​and the use of technology, influencing both the conscience and the actions of the neighbors. For the development of the investigation, theoretical methods such as historical, logical, systemic, modeling, analysis and synthesis were used; as empirical methods: direct and indirect observation, interview and field work. This research resulted in the elimination of two clandestine micro-landfills and the formation of an environmental awareness of the community's neighbors.