Terra Educa Association

What should children and communities be learning and practicing as the current world feverishly composts into something unknown? This is the key question that orients our mission, currently under the framework of “Associação Terra Educa”, a Brazilian civil society non-profit organization rooted within the largest remaining continuum of Atlantic Rainforest in the country - in the Marumbi Watershed, Morretes/PR. Embedded in this territory of steep forested slopes, headwater springs, and dense humidity, our work is anchored in Terra Escola — an accredited community school offering scholarship-based early childhood education while preparing to expand into Primary Education on community-donated land. Grounded on the recognition that the Marumbi River is a living being whose vitality organizes the conditions for life in the region, we seek to align our efforts to the dynamics defined by the watershed herself.