#CompostaCCHLA, an extension project at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), invites everyone to a joint effort this Saturday, August 10, in the external courtyard of the Center for Human Sciences, Letters and Arts (CCHLA), UFRN's central campus. The patio will be cleaned, the plants and the composting sector will be maintained, as well as future actions will be planned.
Open to the entire community, academic and external, the collective effort begins at 8 am and should last throughout the morning. Anyone who wants to participate must wear long pants and wear shoes. There will also be a collective breakfast, to which volunteers can contribute whatever food and drinks they wish.
About the project
The #CompostaCCHLA extension project is an action linked to UFRN that has been operating since 2018, without resources, based on the self-management of volunteers, collaborators from the academic community and the external public. The organic solid waste management model and the principles of the 2030 Agenda guide the project as a sustainable practice in institutionalized spaces. The objective is to promote, through the composting method, the management of part of the organic waste from the Centro de Ciências Humanas Letras e Artes (CCHLA), using agroecological management as the technical foundation of urban agriculture for occupying city space, such as vegetable gardens, herb spirals, worm farms and other social technologies that have already been carried out in the CCHLA courtyard, on the Central Campus of UFRN. Open to the general public, the project was designed and is supervised by Juan Pablo, an agroecology technician, under the coordination of professor Winifred Knox, from the Department of Public Policies at UFRN.