Hello for Santos City,
Brazil
I am working with a group of freshmen (five girls and five boys)
from Colegio Afonso Pena - High School. They are all very excited and
thankful to have been accepted in the Sandwatch Project. They are used to
go to the beach since they were little but they never thought about it
with an environmental perspective. So the Sandwatch project will give us
the opportunity to expose our students to the fact that many of our
beaches are under serious environmental degradation. Hopefully we
can show our students that is also our responsibility to maintain our
coast clean.
We are working along teachers from others areas such as Biology,
Chemistry, Math, Physics, geography, English and Portuguese. We are
looking forward to share our data, observations, photos and ideas with
other Sandwatchers. I am particularly excited to see my students spreading
out this environmental conscience to their generation.
We met a couple of days ago to discuss some specific ideas for Sandwatch
in Santos - Brazil.Again, thank you for giving us the opportunity to
plant and developing an environmental attitude in our students'
heart. By Degenal Santos - Teacher
Alfonso Pena HS Students visit
Tobago for Sandwatch
OUR CITY - SANTOS
Santos is one of the cities oldest of Brazil. It is located in the
coast of the state of São Paulo, Brazilian Southeastern region.
Many facts, people and places had been and are important until
today for the history of Brazil and the world.
Santos has the famous port city of Brazil. It is 70 km away
from San Paulo, the largest industrial city of Brazil. Covering an
area of 474 sq. km, Santos has a population of 430 000, of which
95 percent inhibit in San Vicente Island. It is a densely
populated area, accounting for 10 percent of the total area of the
city. it is also the biggest port to export coffee It is the
biggest seaport in Latin America.
There many beautiful beaches in Santos. Its beach's garden, 5.335
Km length, figures in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest
beach front garden.
Besides all that, Santos is hometown for Santos Football
Club, the only soccer team Pele ever played professionally in
Brazil. By Rafael Vital Borges - student from Colegio Afonso Pena -
High School
