The Potentiality of University Extension to Stimulate Sustainable Awareness and Ecosystem Valorization in Services, Territories and with Children and Their Relatives

Abstract

The University Extension Project “Baú de Histórias” acts in Santos municipality (São Paulo state, Brazil), in three sectors: health, education and social assistance. Students tell stories through dramatization through cooperative interprofessional practice, using residues to make the characters and the scenery. Objective: to present how the extension can create a sustainable awareness and stimulate services, territories, children and theirs relatives in vulnerable position, in general, to value the ecosystem where they live. Method: working topics that encompass sustainability, recycling and giving other meanings to the materials through playful activities. The results reveal the potential for interaction between: the university, territories, services and population by empowering children and their relatives as active subjects and multipliers of actions that transform their environment in a playful way. Consequently, the environment becomes more sustainable, less polluted and with more playful resources with easy access, promoting its health and development. Final considerations: the extension’s practical experience is based on interprofessional education and integral and humanized care. Providing a different teaching-learning process, offering environmental awareness, social interaction and child stimulation, reflecting the playing process as facilitating resource, in addiction to empowering the population.