TUI Care Foundation supports teacher training in Mexico in partnership with Rainforest Alliance
A new project from the TUI Care Foundation's Junior Academy Programme aims to help tackle environmental challenges in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula through education. In cooperation with the Rainforest Alliance, the project will deliver a broad range of learning tools into the hands of nearly 300 teachers in the Riviera Maya. As well as equipping educators with engaging and effective teaching materials targeting 13-18 year olds, the project will provide them with training on key environmental issues from climate change and global forests to biodiversity and sustainable tourism.
For the start of the TUI Junior Academy Programme teachers in over 10 schools will now start the training, while The Rainforest Alliance and the TUI Care Foundation will look into further enhancements to the programme by collaborating with public representatives looking into possibilities of scaling up and standardising procedures. Earlier in 2018 a diagnostic study with relevant stakeholders, local civil society associations, academics, public sector representatives and private actors was conducted. Participants agreed that key players to reach out to in order to affect public opinion and social conduct are teachers at schools. The need to develop an integrated training module across educational institutions was also highlighted. Following this process, TUI Care Foundation and the Rainforest Alliance defined the themes which will frame the teacher training modules.
