Project: Rain Monitoring - Reaching Minorities in Risk Assessment

Team Members:

Suzana Lourenço, Project Lead

Summary:

Education focused on political participation is a great idea, however, in a country like Brazil, there are several inequalities. Ethnic and gender inequalities are the main ones. Exclusion for these groups is social, political, economic, and housing.

The rain monitoring project aims to include students from various parts of the city's periphery around the assessment of environmental risks and proposing political alternatives, from the perspective of these groups. At the same time, it promotes initially the role of girls in the process. On the north coast of São Paulo, Brazil, we face difficulty with including indigenous, black, and quilombola ethnic groups and the LGBTQIA + community and are working to overcome this. In a long journey yet to be faced, the project tries to help urban planning based on environmental justice.

Sustainable Development Goals:

  • Good Health and Well-Being

  • Quality Education

  • Gender Equality

  • Reducing Inequality

  • Sustainable Cities and Communities

  • Climate Action

  • Life on Land

  • Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions

Skills & Resources Needed:

We feel the lack of an infrastructure that allows data storage and analysis tools, in addition to semi-automatic or automatic instruments for collecting pluviometric data. We seek financial and institutional support to continue with the activities.

Post-Capsule Goals:

  • University Partnership or Collaboration

  • Private Research Program

  • Incubator Program

  • Accelerator Program

Project Motivation:

We are in a time of profound changes in the way we perceive society. In Brazil, with the addition of the pandemic, we face political polarization that has made it difficult to establish projects. We’re publicizing our proposals to seek institutional and financial partnerships to move forward despite the country's internal difficulties.

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