What is the Juruti Sustainability School?
This is a training program for 40 representatives from pubic organizations and civil society in Juruti in how to prepare socio-economic and environmental projects. The student projects receive help from specialists in how to stimulate competitiveness and seek funding. The program lasts a year and lessons started in April 2009. In this initiative Alcoa is relying on help coming from its partnership with the Peabiru Institute that is coordinating the school. The Institute has been operating since 2004, mainly in training resident associations and producers from traditional communities in the Amazon. FUNJUS will be one of the financing options for projects prepared by students from the Juruti Sustainability School.