{"id":4370,"date":"2026-02-11T14:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/?p=4370"},"modified":"2026-02-11T14:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:04:10","slug":"educar-e-valorizar-pessoas-e-comunidades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/en_US\/2026\/environment\/educar-e-valorizar-pessoas-e-comunidades\/","title":{"rendered":"To educate is to value people and communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\r\n<p>Investing in environmental education is crucial to preparing communities against the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_4371\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4371\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4371\" src=\"https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG-20260204-WA0220-700x468.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG-20260204-WA0220-700x468.jpg 700w, https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG-20260204-WA0220-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG-20260204-WA0220-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG-20260204-WA0220-449x300.jpg 449w, https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG-20260204-WA0220-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG-20260204-WA0220.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4371\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: CCMA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>Talking about environmental education is, above all, about valuing people and communities. In villages and peripheral neighborhoods, simple initiatives\u2014such as recycling workshops, school gardens, and water conservation\u2014can transform environmental awareness into concrete actions.<\/p>\r\n<p>It was with this spirit that the association O Meu Oceano and the Mozambican-German Cultural Center recently promoted a debate with experts on strengthening community resilience in Mozambique. The meeting highlighted that environmental education, by going beyond the classroom, transforms realities.<\/p>\r\n<p>If, on the one hand, \"when environmental education reaches outside the capital, it transforms realities and forms critical consciences,\" as stated by N\u00e9lia Benedita of Eco-Ac\u00e7\u00e3o, on the other hand, \"it creates dialogue, brings people closer together, and strengthens the feeling that everyone is part of the solution,\" added Manuel Maloa.<\/p>\r\n<p>Cl\u00e1udia Machaieie, another participant, reinforced that these practices can be seen as tools for social inclusion, especially since, in addition to preservation, the debate addressed waste management and the 3Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle) as income-generating opportunities.<\/p>\r\n<p>The meeting made it clear that investing in environmental education is crucial to preparing communities against the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events.<\/p>\r\n<p>(By Renaldo Manhice)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Investing in environmental education is crucial to preparing communities against the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[caption id=\"attachment_4371\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"700\"]<img class=\"...\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[1664,1667,1665,1663,1666],"class_list":["post-4370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-destacadas","category-environment","tag-da-eco-accao","tag-educacao-ambiental","tag-manuel-maloa","tag-nelia-benedita","tag-o-meu-oceano-e-o-centro-cultural-mocambicano-alemao"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4370"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4374,"href":"https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370\/revisions\/4374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mozavibe.co.mz\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}