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<![CDATA[GREEN TENT - LA TENDA VERDE - Sacred Connections Blog by Angela Weber]]>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 01:21:48 -0700Weebly<![CDATA[Thank you, Women of Pintadas!]]>Sat, 04 May 2024 08:11:42 GMThttps://www.greententcircle.com/sacred-connections-blog-by-angela-weber/thank-you-women-of-pintadas

What women are doing to help our Mother Earth and create sustainability for themselves.

This photo is from an open dump in the municipality of Pintadas, Bahia, in the dry portion northeast of Brazil.

Some considerations: according to Law 12305 of 2/8/2010, it is the responsibility of individuals, companies and public services to collect and dispose of solid waste throughout the national territory. This law assigns individualized and linked responsibilities to manufacturers, importers and traders, consumers and public service holders, defines actions such as: selective collection, creation and development of cooperatives and associations, technical and financial cooperation and environmental education. It divides responsibilities across national, state, regional and municipal plans. It delegates to the states the constitution of micro regions, where small municipalities together, can seek resources from the Union, presenting plans with consortium solutions, with diagnosis of origin, volume and selective garbage collection. All very good, if it were true!

Where are the chains of responsibilities?

Public authorities and the packaging industry?

The first photo at the top clearly shows the lack of any policy or plan for the garbage collection of solid waste in Pintadas\BA. And this is the portrait of most small poor Brazilian municipalities.

Where are the policies?

Where are the resources?

In Pintadas a group of women, belonging to RedePintadas, is taking the problem into their own hands and finding solutions that create opportunities and income.

From bones they are making soap and natural fertilizer. as well as hair and body cream. They also make soap and fertilizers from discarded coconuts shells.They need some machinery to facilitate the intense work, but they already sell soap and other products within the community, creating opportunities and income mainly for women.

Soap made from bones

How can a project like this be included in a policy that is delegated to outsourced contractors, who do not see interest and opportunities in small municipalities like Pintadas?

The impact of this work goes beyond creates development using the resources themselves and creating wealth. Really doing something very positive for our Mother Earth!

Thank you women of Pintadas!

]]><![CDATA[SOS SPESE]]>Sun, 12 Nov 2023 15:42:04 GMThttps://www.greententcircle.com/sacred-connections-blog-by-angela-weber/sos-spese

SOS Spese is doing something very important for Mother Earth and some of its less fortunate citizens. It all started during the pandemics, when people were not able to go out to buy their groceries. The initial idea was to buy it for those in need, but then they realized that the problem was worse, because most people couldn’t afford to buy their own food anymore.

Europe is known as a place where 153 millions tons of food are thrown away every year. It’s more than what Europe imports. Actually it seems that they import to throw it away. And good food it is!

SOS Spese once a week, goes to the fruit and vegetable market of Verona to pick up what is being thrown out and distributes it among around 70 families in need.

So SOS Spese once a week, goes to the fruit and vegetable market of Verona to pick up what is being thrown out and distributes it among around 70 families in need. Every Friday a van with volunteers goes to the market and returns with what they got. It starts early in the morning and around 10:30 am it arrives at the Paratodos shed where there is always a line of people waiting to receive their weekly share of food, good food. The volunteers arrange the fruits and vegetables and help to distribute them. People from all nationalities, gender and age come and even the volunteers pick up their food.

Imagine if we could make an SOS Spese in every city in Europe and in the world? Wouldn’t it be a wonderful way to help ourselves and to help Mother Earth?

]]><![CDATA[War is not a women’s game]]>Sat, 04 Nov 2023 15:02:37 GMThttps://www.greententcircle.com/sacred-connections-blog-by-angela-weber/war-is-not-a-womens-game

Thursday is a great day! We got together at Casa di Ramia for the Flying Carpet Lab. There we weave a carpet while hearing stories from the “ 1001 Nights Tales”. We discuss the diverse aspects of the day's tale while learning to weave and at the end each writes down on a piece of paper a word or two of what has impacted most on this day. These papers - stickers, are then glued in the carpet weaver machine.
This week we are back after a long and hot summer. And we are starting a new carpet - will weave it together! To start we have to prepare the yard in the loom.But there is a problem: everything done has to be blessed and when blessed it has a soul. We aren’t sure if our loom preparation will be right, should we bless something that could end up wrong? We discussed it for almost an hour, each putting forward their own point of view. The women of Arabic culture said that it’s a bad omen to bless something that may not come out good, the others, including some Africans thought that even when we have the possibility of doing wrong, it should be blessed, because everything in its bottom has a soul, a good soul. And we voted, and the blessing was the winner. With that decided we started dancing, playing drums, chanting all together, while some women prepared the loom. The loom now is ready, blessed and has a soul. We congregate to lunch together, food offered by another NGO that feeds those in need. So we congregated in the garden and ate together. We were from Morocco, Pakistan, Tunisia, Benin, Nigeria, Senegal, Palestina, Italia and Brazil. There was peace and harmony among us.

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