From 2004 to 2008, MAÍS, together with CEAPAC, the CEFT-BAM and many rural trade unions, association of fishermen and women, executed in the Lower-Amazon region a project aimed at strengthening the economy of the villages.
The most important results are:
- the development of innovative methodologies for the region,
- the empowerment of the villages’ people
- and implementing some pilot project of production and marketing – handicraft, native bee honey, processed tropical fruit and cassava sub-products.
As well as caring about institutional relationship, in this project I managed the work team (together with a local director), I developed the project methodologies, and I made some economic, social and environmental feasibility study.
We point out a final systematization of the project methodologies, the handbook Tecendo saberes e métodos (“Sawing knowledge and methods”, in Portuguese). Three short documentaries, made by PuntoDoc in 2006, described by video some facets of the project.
Among the activities with more impact, there are those done in the Tamuataí river, in the Prainha municipality; to know more about this experience, see there.