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  Project "Wild herbs at home"
A project is aimed at realizing the system of interaction among various structures of community to involve wide layers of population into a real activity carried out to preserve species of wild plants and to substantially influence the state of health of population of a region.
Project "Wild herbs at home" (1997-98) has been financed by Institute of sustainable communities (ISC) within the framework of a project ROLL.

Tasks of a project:
        1. Attracting attention of public and administrative structures to necessity of preserving wild herbs and possibility of substantial improving health of population at the expense of inner resources of a region.
2. Organizing growing wild medicinal herbs at back yards of rural schools and country-cottage lots.
3. Initiating the system of measures aimed at using medicinal raw materials, grown up at schools and on coutry-cottage lots, in sanitation work with population of Bryansk region.
       4. Preparation of methodological materials for replicating analogous activity in Bryansk region and other regions of Russia.

Goals of project:

  • To get valuable and, what is very important today, cheap medicinal raw materials, by taking which it is possible, using inner possibilities of a region, to mitigate a tense state illnesses present in terms of lack of medicine to treat those.
  • Create conditions in a region to bring down the loading on natural populations of a whole line of species of wild herbs.
  • Organize a real interaction of various structures of a community to solve ecological and social problems.
    Project allows:
  • To a substantial part of population of a region to master ecological ways of agriculture, to change attitude toward a problem of preserving biological variety  and satisfy oneself that it is possible by one's own forces to change a situation for the better.
  • To develop and distribute information and methodological materials for replicating experience of a project in other regions in Russia.
  • To draw resources of local communities to development of a project.
Substantial work has been carried out with schools and garden associations on growing medicinal herbs and improving health of children. A tear-off calendar (960c.) with description of technology of cultivating medicinal herbs, a book "How to grow herbs on one's own" (1,000c.) have been published and distributed cost-free among the population. Experience of a project is replicated in 8 regions in Russia.
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