Many acres are deforested every year due to artisanal clay mining in Huancayo, Peru. This solution would establish the region’s first volunteer and community service project to educate and engage students and artisanal miners in reforestation efforts on abandoned mining sites. The project would recruit the municipality, teachers, and principals to promote and disseminate the program in three stages. Stage one distributes bulletins and holds talks on the importance of ecological restoration; stage two is focused on training students and miners on reforestation systems; and in stage three, students and miners will reforest abandoned mining sites. Students will continue to monitor the reforested sites to ensure success and sustainability.