SILVA, C. S.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1289751670662747; SILVA, Charlene Sousa.
Abstract:
Strategies of coexistence with the semiarid need to have a bigger attention against water
fragility which characterize the region, like sustainable management of the water source and
the captation appreciation, storage and management of rainwater for appropriate production.
Alternative water technologies for collecting and storing rainwater to production and human
consumption are mechanisms that make this coexistence with the semiarid in a harmonious
way. Thus, our research titled "Contextualized Education in the Scope of the Plate Cisterns
Program in Cariri Paraibano", aims to identify the Contextualized Education actions in the
Plates Cisterns Program and how this education is assimilated by the Program beneficiaries.
Field research was carried out in the rural area of Sumé municipality, in the western cariri of
Paraíba, where we identified the subjects involved and applied the questionnaires as research
technique to 20 beneficiaries in a total of 500 already benefited by the Program in this
municipality, specifically in the communities of Craibeiras, Jurema, Junco, Perímetro
Irrigado, Várzea da Roça e Laginha. We verified the importance of this Program as a public
policy focused on Living with the Semiarid and the importance of practicing / training so that
we can identify which subjects we are dealing with and to know better the reality of each one.
A very rich exchange of knowledge, between the popular and the scientific, making it an
effective policy, not only in the technical part of technology, but in the formation of enabling
each beneficiary, farmer of our Semiarid, to know their own potentialities, and to see our
Semiarid as a cradle of possibilities and not a delay.