Reply To: Exercise 3: 5 Close Contacts
Week 3: Soliciting Advice
Conversation #1:
1. Add something to the t-shirts like “I pick up trash”
2. Do “Pequenas Placitas” or “small chats” with school children arranged by a conversation with the principal
3. Use the graduating university students who are required to do 460 hours of social services work in order to obtain their degree
4. Take a photo of every child/student who participates that includes what they did and maybe a quote.
5. Include composting in the conversation.
Vote for Project starting with school children
Conversation #2:
1. Start a Facebook page for the project.
2. Use connections to the local government to make contact with them to find a way to include them.
3. Get advertisements about the event out in the newspapers, social media, influencers in the area.
4. Use t-shirts with the message of Yo Merida
Vote for community wide event
Conversation #3:
1. Have “Brigades de Limpeza” (cleaning brigades)
2. Develop a clear identity that can be easily communicated.
3. Make use of Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts
4. Form very concrete goals and objectives for reaching them after you have clearly articulated an “identity”
5. There is something called “Jefe de la Manzana” that exists in other parts of Mexico. It is like a “Neighborhood Watch” with a leader who organizes taking care of a small neighborhood area like a block or several.
Vote for a small event with one group (school, church, organization) and go to community wide event after.
Conversation #4:
1. Use Mexican people as the leaders. Suggested several local businesses that would be well suited to participate including a property management business with lots of community action and ties, a health concierge service also with ties.
2. Make an event once a month.
3. Use a local “influencer” who already has a large (predominantly gringo) audience.
4. Connect with the Merida English Library which has a board of directors with lots of experience in outreach and local connections.
5. Reach out to the governmental leaders through a woman who has already done lots of projects that have been run through local government.
Vote for community wide event but want it to be monthly.
Conversation #5: (scheduled for today.)