- What type of organization best describes you?
Community Groups Volunteering.
We are a non-profit grassroots organization that works to support various grassroots organizations such as environmental roundtables, community aqueducts, small schools, etc.
- describe your organization
Environmental roundtables in Colombia are civil society organizations with a socio-environmental emphasis whose functions are varied and depend on the local characteristics of each municipality or locality. They generally focus on environmental training, education, environmental assessments, environmental problem management, citizen participatory research (citizen science), and relations with the State for the management of territorial processes, among others.
Environmental roundtables do not receive financial support from the State, which is why they are largely autonomous. However, they almost always have financial weaknesses that limit their actions and require not only strong citizen participation but also extensive volunteer work. In this case, the requested equipment is intended to implement air quality monitoring processes, which would be managed by volunteer professionals linked to environmental roundtables and other social organizations.
- Describe your project
The data captured by the device will contribute to environmental education and awareness processes in several areas that suffer air quality impacts in municipalities in the metropolitan area of the Aburrá Valley, but will also serve to provide scientific support to citizen efforts demanding better air quality within the framework of a citizen network called “Air and Public Health Network” which is also a voluntary effort. And will also contribute to gathering information for a local environmental observatory of a community nature, 100% participatory and voluntary, but with high technical value that allows managing solutions with the municipal State.
- Which PurpleAir model(s) are you interested in and how many would you want for your project?
Preferably Flex or Zen models, but Classic Plus will also work. Hopefully three sensors.