Attention Baboquivari High School students, ages 15+!
Borderlands Restoration Network, Baboquivari High School, and Tohono O'odham Community College are collaborating to bring the second year of Ṣu:dagī ‘O Wud Doakag (Water Is Life), a paid after school internship designed to engage O'odham youth in cultural rainwater harvesting education and activities. The program will begin with online remote training and end with a hands-on rainwater harvesting project on campus. Please send completed applications to Damien Carlos, dcarlos@busd40.org, by 5pm on Friday, October 23. Interviews will take place the week of October 26-30 and offers to 10 interns will be made on Friday, October 30. |
BHS is located near Sells, AZ, the modern-day capital of the TO Nation along what today is recognized as the US/Mexico border. This large reservation, equal in land area to the state of Connecticut, is in the heart of the Sonoran Desert and receives less than 10” of rain per year.
While the TO have lived on these arid lands for many generations, the reservation's groundwater resources face increasing encroachment from Tucson’s urban sprawl and for concrete footers of the new border wall, endangering himdag for the people who have lived here long before Tucson was founded. In 2018, Desert Diamond Casino and The North Face funded a one-year pilot program designed and coordinated by BHS and BRN staff. One student from the TOCC was hired to facilitate the paid after-school program, leading daily activities. Thirteen BHS students were then hired as interns with Ṣu:dagī ‘O Wud Doakag. Between August 2018 and May 2019, the Ṣu:dagī ‘O Wud Doakag interns met weekly after school with TOCC, BHS, and BRN mentors to design and install the on-campus rainwater harvesting design. To gain inspiration for their project, interns first visited Tucson’s Manzo Elementary School, a Tucson community Flowers & Bullets cistern-installation project, the Watershed Management Group’s urban demonstration site, and Patagonia Union High School’s rainwater fed pond and native plant terraces. |
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1 School Street Patagonia, AZ 85624 Mailing Address: P.O. Box 121 Patagonia, AZ 85624 |
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