To take to the north-eastern sertao: food, culture, sport, art and health via the caravan which will be following the route, promoting workshops, film projections, food and medicine distributuion out of many other social actions.
The main objective is to use the adventure sport as a social inclusion tool and work in the Sertão, one of the main vocation of this area that is the Adventure Tourism, promoting this way an ecologicaly correct and self-sustaining activity for this area, preserving the environment and creating new horizons for the suffered local population.
Help will come by land and by air !
All the pilots (hang-gliders, paragliders and trikes ) will be flying with foodstuffs to be distributed among the needy population at the landing areas, exchanging ballasts such as sand, lead, etc. necessary for flights in tough conditions, for rice and beans.
By land, the 15 retrieval cars will complete the job distributing boxes of basic foodstuffs in the remotest areas.
One of the buses will serve as support to the pilots and organization while the other will work as a mobile community centre, which will be set up in the rally’s host cities, with the aim of providing social and health services to the needy communities in the cities and villages along the route, such as doctors, dentists etc.
The trikes ( motorized hang-gliders ) will be doing the aerial coverage of the event and giving support to the retrieval, monitoring the cars via radio and GPS, after the landing of the paraglider and hang-glider pilots.
ADVENTURE ARENA
It will be the event's reference in the cities, the "Itinerant Head Quarters".
The "Arena" will be set in the main village square with the aim to bring the event to the city heart, making local people take active part of the event.
Many activities will be going on at the "Arena":
EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS
Doctors, dentists, and other professionals from health, sports and tourism, will be giving work shops about birth control, dental hygene, action sports, ecology, self-sustaining tourism and etc...
MOVIE TO SERTÃO
Long and short movies with active sports theme will be presented to local people, who rarely have the access to such oportunity.
DISTRIBUTION OF DONATIONS
Beyond the food-stuff distributed by the pilots and retrieve cars, there will also be given, after the workshops, toothbrushes, clothes, toys and all the donations received before the event by the Hang Gliding and Paragiding national Association and local clubs.
SERTÃO - ADVENTURE DESTINATION
It will work in local people one of the main vocation of the Sertão: the Adventure Tourism. Promoting the development of the self-sustaining tourism, exploring the Sertão wealthiness and natural beauties, as a paradise for practicing adventure sports and tourism in general.
HQ - HEAD QUARTERS
It's the technical heart of the event. It's where the press, computer and general information staff will be.
ADVENTURE PARK
It will be a mini theme park of action sports geared towards children, with the goal of presenting and awakening an interest for these sports in the children of the sertao, who rarely have access to these kinds of activities.
The park will offer activities such as: hang-glider simulator, climbing wall, tirolesa, rappel workshops, mechanical surf simulator and trampoline.
Click here to know more about the "Adventure Park"
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