
Arriving in 2016 as a mathematics teacher in Mojana in Colombia, Jairo Castro faced climatic upheavals and the abandonment of local populations, deciding to act in the face of this situation.
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La Mojana is a vast floodplain of 500,000 hectares in northern Colombia, affected by climate change and pollution.
In San Marcos (Sucre, Colombia)
Arms of rivers which divide, join and intertwine, separated by strips of land covered with green meadows: this singular landscape where buffaloes lazily splash and which is weighed down by leaden heat is that of Mojana, a vast flood plain of 500,000 hectares, in the north of Colombia. When Jairo Castro arrived in this remote region in 2016 to teach mathematics, “it was a shock”. In this territory which once lived to the regular rhythm of floods and low waters, the local communities of fishermen and farmers are now suffering the effects of a disrupted climatic calendar and the contamination carried, from the north, by the rivers which converge here.
Discovering “the unworthy living conditions of local populations, the abandonment of public authorities and the inadequate responses to their problems”, he decided to act from his place as an educator: from there was born…

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