【Environmental Protection】School based environmental education and awareness campaigns

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Regarding ‘Environmental Protection through Expanding Lemon grass growing and Education in Uganda’, this is the second report of 2nd year of this project.

Environmental Education at school

This time, ‘Activity 1.6: School based environmental education and awareness campaigns’ were carried out on June 2018.

A total of 8,020 children were participated in 16 schools of at least 500 child enrolment.

The purpose of this campaigns

1.     To instill the value of protecting and taking good care of the environment in children’s minds through various environmental conservation measures.

2.     To increase schools’ awareness on environmental protection methods and the reasons why they are needed for example, tree planting, lemon grass growing, and environmental conservation laws among others.

Environmental Education at school

Environmental Education at school

The outcomes of this training were as following.

• Children noted how it would be punishable to break school rules related to environment protection.
• School children promised to inform their parents about lessons learnt in order for them to know the importance of conserving the environment.
• Teachers thanked for the support to providing tree seedlings to schools which will help foster environment conservation with in schools and in the community.

These campaigns created mass awareness among school children and teachers, and strength school rules and regulations as well as raise opportunities to take actions for environmental protection.

You can find the details in the reports below,

Activity 1.6 School based environmental education and awareness campaigns

*This project is supported by Japan Fund for Global Environment of the Environmental Restoration (JFGE) and by Environmental Restoration and Conservation Agency (ERCA)