NAPRA

Núcleo de Apoio à População Ribeirinha da Amazônia
(Organization for the Support of Riverside Communities in the Amazon Rainforest)
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NAPRA
Núcleo de apoio à População Ribeirinha da Amazônia
“Social Development with Environmental
protection”

NAPRA PRESENTATION
Prepared by: Marcelo Salazar, Fernanda Gusmão, Valéria Vasconcelos, Paula Moreira, Jeferson
Straatmann, Andrea Silveira, Marcelo Damarzo, Aline Guerra, Hamilton Modesto, all NAPRA´s members.

NAPRA began its activities in 1995 and it became an
independent non-profit organization in 2003. NAPRA’s
mission is to support and strengthen riverside communities
situated in isolated areas of the Amazon forest, surrounded
by legal conservation units. These populations are generally
excluded from basic public services. NAPRA has a fixed
base lodge on the Baixo Madeira River, a branch of the
Amazon River in the São Carlos do Jamari community. The
organization is currently composed of 60 professionals,
lecturers, and undergraduate and post-graduate student
volunteers from more than ten universities in Brazil. Student
volunteers involved in NAPRA’s work learn about the needs
of the local communities and have the opportunity to apply
their knowledge and skills in real-life situations. NAPRA’s
main activities are in the areas of education, health services
and Production&Organization. The traditional and indigenous
communities along the rivers in the Amazon are vital for the
preservation of the adjacent forest. NAPRA fully believes
that support for the livelihoods of the target communities will
in turn foster the preservation of their environment and
natural habitats. In addition, strengthening and empowering
traditional and indigenous communities by helping them to
develop their livelihoods in a sustainable manner is the
primary way of deterring the strong tendency of riverside
people to migrate to urban areas. NAPRA’s longstanding and
successful experience is based on the following principles (i) engaging in dialogue with communities about
their needs; (ii) establishing long lasting relationships of trust with the communities; (iii) encouraging and
valuing traditional culture; (iv) participating in setting short and long term objectives; and (v) promoting the
facilitation of multisector projects based on community needs. In following these principles, NAPRA spurs
sustainable development decisions from within communities themselves.
1. BRAZILIAN AMAZON RAINFOREST CONTEXT1
The Amazon forest represents 26% of the world existing rain forest. This forest
protects one of the biggest biodiversity of the world and contributes for the regional
climate regulation. From 2003 to 2006, 70,000 km2 were cleared for plantations,
timber harvesting and cattle ranching. Currently, cattle ranching, soybean
monoculture, and logging represent the greatest threats to the Amazon. Extensive,
low-yield cattle ranching is the main cause of deforestation in the Amazon. Roughly
70% of the area deforested is cattle pasture, containing 65 million head of cattle, or
33% of Brazil’s cattle herd. Some invaders use strength to banish traditional families
from the region and guarantee the land with false documents. First come the farmers
with cattle raising and then with soy plantations.
1 Most of the information of the Amazon Rainforest Context and production&organization project was taken from the
paper “Empowering isolated communities from the Amazon Rain Forest through the Mini-Factory, a diverse concept of
processing Non Timber Forest Products (NTFP)” wrote by Jeferson Straatmann and Marcelo Salazar published and
presented at the XII International Conference on Production Technology, Berlin. October, 11 and 12 of 2007.
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This Amazon devastation cycle rupture, the protection of the forest and of the forest
citizens are some of the main current objectives of the Environmental Ministry of
Brazilian government, civil organizations, some enterprises and universities.
Besides governing the region through providing security, the infrastructure, health
and education, the government plays an important role for the forest and
communities preservation. The creation and implementation of different kinds of
Conservation Units is an important step taken by the government with the support of
NGOs and social movements to reduce the speed of devastation and to legalize and
officially recognize the territories occupied by citizens that have traditionally used
the forest in a sustainable way.
There are in the Brazilian Amazon Rain Forest 286 Conservation Units – 99,978,704
ha2 that represents 19.97% of the legal Amazon. From that 103 are for integral
protection (6.96%) and 183 are for sustainable use (13.01%). Those are just the area
without considering the indigenous demarcated lands that are responsible for other
20% of the legal Amazon forest and 12% of the Brazilian total territory. The
importance of those protected areas becomes clearer on the map that show
Rondônia state in North of Brazil for example (Picture 1). Almost all the preserved
areas are Conservation Units or Indigenous demarcated Land.
Picture 1: Map of Rondonia State. The yellow and orange colours shows the deforestation. The Green
areas are the Conservation Unities Areas and the white areas are forest without any legal protection.
Source: MMA and SEDAM.
2 This area is equivalent to 2.8 times the Germany area.
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The protection of those areas depends on different factors, as follows: continues
fiscalization, researches in different areas, political transparence, guarantee of
communities’ rights, education adapted to communities’ reality, health improvement
and income generation through the sustainable use of the forest. The empowerment
and development of the forest communities are especially important due to the
traditional forestry activities and ecosystem conservation services that they have
been rendering to the globe for centuries.
2. RIVERSIDE COMMUNITIES
There are about 23 millions of people living inside the Amazon rainforest today. The
occupation of Brazilian Rainforest involves different historical issues. Part of the
population are traditional communities composed by indigenous people and the other
part is composed by the “caboclos” (denominated riverside communities on this
paper). There are, as well, in the Amazon area, non traditional people composed by
city population, small and large farmers.
A. BRIEF HISTORY OF AMAZON OCCUPATION
Before the 16th century there were just indigenous people occupying the forest.
Between 16th and 19th occurred some Portuguese incursion because of mineral
exploitation and territory occupation. But it was between the end of 19th century and
1950 that the Amazon had the main important economic moments. It was caused by
the acceleration of automobile industry demanded a lot of Rubber to the cars’ tires.
In almost 50 years, the rubber production has involved around 100,000 people, many
of then from northeast of Brasil, region with a several dry periods.
After the end of the 1st War, the Rubber demand decreased and in addiction, some
countries of Asia started to produce Rubber, encouraged by England. Many people,
without conditions to return back Home ended up establishing residence in the
forest.
In the beginning of 2nd War, the US entered into agreement with Brazilian
government in order to provide Rubber to US, because Malaysia and other countries
of Asia were blocked by Japan.
In addition to these historical aspects, in the Madeira River Region in 1870 the
Bolivian Government began to construct a Railway linking Bolivia to the Atlantic
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Ocean through the Madeira and Amazon River in the Rondonia State. During such
Railway’s construction, two local wars occurred and one indigenous tribe was
exterminated. Almost 25,000 people was employed to the construction of such
railway and many of then died because of Tropical diseases (Malaria), snakes, tigers
and conflicts with Indigenous communities. Again many of the remaining people that
migrated to work in the Railway construction established residence in the forest.
A New cycle of Rubber has initiated and the Brazilian government has encouraged the
northeast population to migrate to the Amazon again. After the end of the 2nd War
and the beginning of Synthetic Rubber production, the demand for natural rubber
was largely decreased. Again, around 25,000 immigrant survivors in the Amazon
which had no money and no to return back home, ended up establishing residence
and family in the forest.
This brief history shows that the riverside communities have a more recent
occupation in the Amazon rainforest than the Indigenous people. However, many of
then are already between the 4th and 6th generation. Therefore, the riverside
communities acquired the status of traditional communities and are allowed to live
in the forest. The riverside communities are known in the academy and government
by their knowledge about the forest and especially by their relationship with the
nature, their sustainable way of life, their traditional medicine and culture. Those
were some of the points that enabled them to live in harmony with the nature for
hundreds of years without deforestation or big injuries to the bio-system.
B. LOWER MADEIRA RIVER COMMUNITIES
The communities among the Madeira river are
part of a specific kind of traditional forest
communities in Brazil, recognized by the
government officially in 2007.
The main source of incomes for those
communities always were the NTFP (Non Timber
Forest Products), specifically Rubber and Brazil
Nuts. By decades those were the main products
commercialized by the “bosses of Rubber”, that
kept theses population into a semi-slavery
system. In that system the producer were
always in debt with the bosses, exchanging their
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products for industrialized ones, usually double cost as in the city. Without Rubber as
the main resource source they had to diversify their activity with other collected
forest products, fishing and subsistence agriculture to feed their needs. Therefore,
products used before just for their traditional use became income for living.
The economy was changed but the same dependency relationship for
commercialization and production still happening nowadays. The “middlemen” are
the actual buyer of the communities. He does know processor industries or has
contact to market and fairs. He usually works exchanging products with the
communities – the industrial products costs double or triple that in the city -,
creating dependency relationship with the inhabitants.
The Low Madeira River communities are part of three federal Conservation Units
(Extrative Reserve of Cuniã Lake; National Forest of Jacundá and Ecological Station
of Cuniã). They can be directly inside the Conservation Unit, as a sustainable one, or
indirectly, as part of the boundaries of the reserves. Those areas are in theory
protected by law and by the government against loggers, miners, farmers and
invaders. However the population, legally living in those areas, needs alternative
ways to develop and to guarantee access to their rights.
The Brazilian law that regulates the Conservation Units around the country and
regulates the utilization of lands for traditional communities says that those units
were created to preserve the environment and the traditional way of life of the
forest communities, being a civil and government duty the promotion of the welfare
of those inhabitants. That’s now the challenge to be faced by the communities,
government and the organized civil institutions.
3. ABOUT NAPRA - ORGANIZATION FOR THE SUPPORT AND
DEVELOPMENT OF RIVERSIDE COMMUNITIES IN THE AMAZON
RAINFOREST
NAPRA is a Brazilian NGO established in 1996
to support and strengthen riverside
communities in the Amazon Rainforest. It is
composed of 60 volunteers of professionals
and undergraduate students from different
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universities in Brazil. NAPRA works in the region along the Madeira river between the
communities of Aliança and Calama, in Rondonia State, supporting about 30 different
communities.
Fig. 1: Main Madeira river communities
Source: NAPRA Report (2006) [5]
The NGO’s main activities, as described in Figure 2, are in the areas of education,
health services and agriculture. During the performance of such volunteer work,
students can learn about the local population’s needs and have opportunities to
apply their knowledge and skills.
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Fig. 2: NAPRA projects
Source: NAPRA (2006) [5]
To guarantee the success of the actions in the communities the NGO follows some
basic Principles presented as follow:
Multisector projects;
Continuous dialogue with communities about their needs;
Establishment of a long lasting relationship of trust with diverse stakeholders;
Encouragement and valuation of traditional communities culture;
Participatory setting of short and long term objectives;
Increase social and Environmental awareness of Brazilian and International
students.
In the “Production and Organization Area”, NAPRA works in partnership with Chico
Mendes Institute, which is part of the environmental agency of the Brazilian
Government responsible for the conservations Unities and the Global Engineering
Team. These partnerships is facilitating the development of a Management Plan for
the area along the Madeira river and the mini-factory project, which will be an
important step of the development of the region.
• Medical and Dentistry
attendances
• Health Education
• Telemedicine Technology
Health Services
Education
Production and
Organization
• Mini-factory - Structure for NTFP
production and commercialization
• Development of a Management
plan for Conservation Unities
• Workshops - “Step by step from
production to commercialization”
• Empowerment of young people
• Local teachers Education
• Traditional Cultural significance
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A. PRODUCTION AND ORGANIZATION PROJECTS
I. GEOGRAPHIC SETTING AND PRODUCTION CONTEXT
To guarantee a good use of the Conservation
Units created by the government, some
sustainable means of income generations must
be structured to opposite the non-sustainable
ones (logging, monoculture, cattle raising). The
uses of NTFPs are known in the literature as a
main income. However, different constraints
reduce the incomes generated by those
products, becoming it a more complementary
source for the families rather then a main
source of income.
The NTFPs represents historically and recently a
sustainable way of income for communities and it was pointed as a way to promote a
sustainable management of the forest. In the end of 80´s beginning of 90´s the
literature pointed NTFPs as an attractive possibility to add value to the forest
without destroying it, and with that, promote the wealthy of the poor population [7,
8, 9]. Some posit that the potential profitability from one hectare of forest could
exceed the profitability of the wood production in the same area. So, in that
direction, NTFPs were seen as a solution for the development of isolated
communities in the Amazon rain forest.
Some issues must be considered to the development of isolated areas. The list
bellow presents some constraints to NTFPs commercialization gathered at the
consulted literature:
Land issues ;
Low incomes by the relationships of dependency between the community and
middlemen ;
General lack of information about market conditions;
Low or lacking value adding to collected products, which are usually sold with
the same characteristics from the forest;
Pressure and future decrease of resources depending on the production
system.
Dependence in the exploitation of only few products rather than the greater
variety of NTFPs;
Lack of skills, knowledge, organizational education, and credit necessary for
market entry;
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Lack of infrastructure to transport products to market;
Lack of financing;
Constant changing demand and prices;
The strategy to overcome those constraints is a challenge for different organizations.
The development of new markets, value adding processes, products diversification,
supply chain development, communities’ organization methods and sustainable
development nets are some of the strategies studied by government, NGOs,
enterprises and researchers. A multifaceted approach must be found between these
organizations to triumph over the difficulties of development and preservation into
isolated areas.
In order to change this reality NAPRA has developed the following activities:
II. MINI-FACTORY - STRUCTURE FOR NTFP PRODUCTION AND
COMMERCIALIZATION;
The Mini-factory and the Commercialization of NTFP was la unched in collaboration
between communities, government, NGOs and world wide universities. These
projects are been developed in the Low Madeira River communities within three
conservation units and in their surroundings.
The main partner for this project nowadays is the GET – Global Engineering Team an
innovative project development group, focused to develop technical, intercultural
and personal competencies for master thesis students of partner universities.
Students are engaged in real projects with industrial partners, reaching real
engineering results, through teamwork. The first GET started in march 2005 with the
partnership between the Technisch Universität Berlin, Universidade de São Paulo and
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte.
The Figure 3 shows all the steps presented in one specific GET project, considering
the team integration, the team building, the project planning and working, the final
presentation and evaluation and the final deliverables to the industrial partners.
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Fig. 3: GET project
Source: GET (2006)
The first GET project was done in 2006, with the development of the Mini-factory
concept. The implementation of some solutions was done in July’s 2007 in parallel to
a new GET project focused in commercialization of NTFPs. More details of both
projects are at the paper “Empowering isolated communities from the Amazon Rain
Forest through the Mini-Factory, a diverse concept of processing Non Timber Forest
Products (NTFP)” presented in 12th October at the XII International Conference on
Production Technology in Berlin, Germany.
III. DEVELOPMENT OF A MANAGEMENT PLAN SUPPORT FOR THE
COUNCIL FUNCTIONING FOR CONSERVATION UNITIES
The development of a Management plan support for the council functioning for
Conservation Unities is a intense collaboration with the Brazilian Environmental
Agency and NAPRA. This cooperation started in 2004 with the first phase of the
management plan of Three Conservation Unities in the region. After this it was
established the councils for these Conservation Unities in 2005 with the intense
support of NAPRA´s team, as a consultancy. In 2006 and 2007 other steps of the
management plan was supported by NAPRA´s team, as well as, the council meetings.
IV. WORKSHOPS - “STEP BY STEP FROM PRODUCTION TO
COMMERCIALIZATION”
On the Workshops “Step by step from production to commercialization” the young
people can learn and dialogue together with the elder people the best practices of
production and commercialization of Non Timber Forest Products and some
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agriculture products as well as manioc flower, water mellow and beans planted
mainly, during the dry season.
B. HEALTH CARE PROJECTS
I. GEOGRAPHIC SETTING AND HEALTH CONTEXT
In terms of health care, since the
1970’s, Brazil has implemented a
public and universal health care
system that is expected to fulfill the
population health needs. Health
services universal and integrated
access is considered a constitutional
right, provided by the government to
all Brazilian citizens. This system has
a decentralized management that considers local reality and needs and offers
services through family health units at communities.
Managed by the municipalities, this system seems to increase the access for
preventive and curative health care, particularly in less affluent communities. This is
the case for Sao Carlos do Jamari, Santa Catarina, Nazare and Cunia, communities in
the State of Rondonia and the geographic setting for this proposal. These small
communities usually have few accesses to health care services and the presence of
government policies is very limited due to the lack of strategies based on local
reality and needs.
The population still suffers from tropical diseases such as Dengue and Malaria, and
from the lack of basic structure in terms of water-supply, electricity and drain
system, what compromises their quality of life.
Based on NAPRA’s past experiences in those areas we have designed a comprehensive
approach to develop health care projects for these four communities based on
principles of health promotion. It is our understanding that the circumstances
demand sustainable intervention and the implementation of any project has to be
community-based and participatory. The engagement of the population in our
projects, whether directly or through their leaders is crucial to this proposal.
For that, we have assembled three domains: child and adolescent; lay people in
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general (adults); and health professionals. In spite of our efforts to work with this
public, advocacy for public health policies implementation to fulfill their needs will
be the core basis of our partnership with local government. We expect to be able to
influence government agenda in this field.
We propose to conduct a 3-year project to:
(a) develop a culturally-relevant intervention to promote health and prevent diseases
among child, adolescents and adults;
(b) promote capacity building and health education among health professionals and
lay people;
(c) provide communities with basic health assistance such as dentistry procedures
and medical practice for a specific period of time each year;
(d) establish a network to implement some of the already existent health policies
(specially concerned to the social control of the health system, the defense of human
rights and the prevention of domestic violence/abuse against children/adolescents
and women).
All projects listed in this section will be detailed in the future (these projects will be
available under request), according to the implementation period and the financial
support obtained for this purpose. Each project will be designed to promote shortterm,
intermediate and long-term outcomes which will be monitored throughout the
period by an evaluation process. The projects are described below.
II. HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTION
Specific Projects: (a) Children and Adolescents Meetings; (b) Engineering and Health;
(c) Pharmacology of the Local Plants.
Priority Population: children; adolescents; adults.
Specific Objectives: to implement different activities in the community to promote
health and to prevent diseases, considering their cultural habits and traditional
knowledge.
Core Activities: we will work with children through entertainment activities and
sports educating them on basic health care and self-protection. With adolescents we
will create a network for sexual transmitted diseases control (especially HIV/AIDS
and Hepatitis prevention which are increasing a lot among this public) and will
develop some sport and cultural activities focusing on health care and promotion.
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Children and adolescents’ activities may be implemented at school as well as in
different places in the community. With the adults we will organize a network to
assess the needs and the resources of the community so that participants may
elaborate a plan of action to overcome the lack of infrastructure in terms of watersupply
and drain system; we will also educate them on basic health care through
workshops and correlated activities basing on their cultural and traditional
environment.
III. CAPACITY BUILDING AND HEALTH EDUCATION
Specific Projects: (a) Community Health Agent
Education Program; (b) Health Promoters; (c)
Telemedicine.
Priority Population: health professionals; lay
people.
Specific Objectives: to build capacity with health
professionals working in the family health units and with lay people so that they may
disseminate information and promote health among the population.
Core Activities: we will organize workshops through which some health issues may be
worked out. These issues will be identified with the help of the health professionals
and the Municipal Health Secretariat and will compose a basic curriculum. Each year
we will focus at least 5 themes. Besides the workshops we will provide the health
professionals in the communities with a theoretical and technical manual written by
experts in different areas. With the lay people we will organize a group of at least 5
persons in each community to prepare them to become Health Promoters and to
influence new health behavior among their neighbors. As we have implemented the
telemedicine resource in the past we will use this tool to educate the groups
throughout the years. We expect that this may increase knowledge among
participants and promote the quality of life in the communities as well.
IV. HEALTH ASSISTANCE
Specific Projects: (a) General Health and Dentistry Assistance; (b) Telemedicine; (c)
Pharmacology of the Local Plants.
Priority Population: children; adolescents; adults.
Specific Objectives: to provide basic health care assistance to the population,
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including dentistry procedures, medical practice, physical therapy, as well as clinical
exam such as electrocardiogram.
Core Activities: every year a group of professionals and students will spend a month
in the community to visit all the existent houses and assist the population with what
it is necessary and possible at the moment. These visits will help the local system to
gather information and compose a map of the reality in terms of health needs. This
also may be useful to advocate on the behalf of the communities at the Municipal
Health Secretariat. Dentistry professionals and students will allocate adequate
resources to proceed with basic treatment. Besides, telemedicine strategy will allow
sharing diagnosis and treatment prescriptions in real time with health professionals
from different parts of Brazil.
V. ADVOCACY FOR HEALTH POLICY
Specific Projects: (a) Network for Social Control.
Priority Population: community leaders; government representatives; health
professionals; lay people.
Specific Objectives: to establish a network to advocate for health policy elaboration
and to control its implementation (promotion and empowerment of the “Social
Control” of local health policy guaranteed by Brazilians laws) , including the defense
of human rights and the prevention of domestic violence/abuse against
children/adolescents and women.
Core Activities: this project will be developed through meetings and workshops with
participants, who will be recruited in the community by the word-of-mouth. We
expect to have a group of at least 5 persons. Participants will be asked to organize
the network defining its mission, objectives and strategies to access the needs of the
community and to include the priorities in the government agenda. Participants will
be prepared to elaborate a plan of action to accomplish the network ultimate goals
and to follow up the implementation of the policies in the community. The network
will also elaborate a meeting schedule on a monthly basis so that members may
discuss their experiences, report violence/abuse cases and create new strategies to
overcome difficulties.
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C. EDUCATION PROJECTS
NAPRA´s activities involving Educational
Area are based upon the principles of
Popular Education – knowledge theory
that takes dialogue, autonomy,
emancipation and social transformation
as a background for all actions
developed by the participants of
learning process and those compromised
with social justice and equity (Paulo Freire).
NAPRA’s Educational Area has its roots in the following main projects: Improving
Programs of Continuous Teacher’s Formation; Developing Community Leaderships
Programs; Supporting Health and Production activities; Valorizing Cultural and
Traditional Values; Increasing Childhood and Youth Educational Programs.
I. IMPROVING PROGRAMS OF CONTINUOUS - TEACHER’S
FORMATION
Searching to help teachers to face and find ways to solve distinct problems related to
their professional quotidian as:
Discipline;
Learning difficulties;
Special Education;
Methodologies and didactic material;
New technologies;
Environmental concerns.
II. DEVELOPING COMMUNITY LEADERSHIPS PROGRAMS;
Looking after a increased community empowerment, some participatory workshops
(e.g. “Step by step – from production to commercialization”) are undertaken with:
Community associations;
Social movements;
Community educators;
Local Counselors;
Environmental agents.
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III. SUPPORTING HEALTH AND PRODUCTION ACTIVITIES;
The basis of NAPRA’s work is a tripod of Education, Health and Sustainability.
All activities developed have this interdisciplinary focus and the Educational Area is
the responsible for guarantee the understanding and the real participatory
engagement of the riverside population in those processes.
IV. VALORIZING CULTURAL AND TRADITIONAL VALUES;
In this area NAPRA develops projects that attends to:
Improve self-steam and traditional cultural values;
Help traditional people to maintain their way of life – fishing, hunting,
foresting, as well as beliefs, desires, ancestral ways of perpetuate their
values.
Support cultural activities as music, theatre and performance groups;
V. INCREASING CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH EDUCATIONAL
PROGRAMS.
NAPRA’s Programs with children and teenagers frequently seeks to improve:
Hygienic habits;
Sports, Leisure and touristy activities;
Environmental education;
Human rights comprehension;
Basis for the formation of Young community agents;