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Jun 10, 2009 News
Western Union has donated $100,000 to the Environmental Community Health Organisation (ECHO) project, to raise awareness on climate change within nine public primary schools in Georgetown. This is to be executed within six months.
In a press statement, ECHO stated that the money would be used to set up the clubs in schools and design and print informational materials for the children.
ECHO is now hoping that other businesses and corporations would come forward and support this project in schools within the society.
Additionally, ECHO in collaboration with PAHO/WHO and the Ministry of Education, has distributed garbage receptacles, water holders and posters with motivational messages to primary schools in Georgetown.
This is part of the “Schools in Action against Climate Change” project, in schools in Regions Three and Four.
The primary goal of the project is to initiate change, and to improve the health of the environment by raising awareness on climate change and the importance of a clean and healthy surrounding among school¬ children, between eight and 12 years old.
However, according to the press statement, other critical stakeholders must support the campaign because everyone stands to benefit from a clean and healthy city.
The statement added that the stakeholder approach would allow more resources to become available to the project because more people are likely to identify with its goal.
The project is expected to provide the opportunity for ECHO in collaboration with teachers, members of the Parent-Teacher Associations, and others to identify and select “Champions for the Environment” in city schools.
This would assist in the dissemination of the message of a healthy city to children and simultaneously give the children a chance to take leadership on environmental issues.
The objectives of the project are to explain the need for a positive attitude to fight climate change, to train 150 children to take leadership on environmental issues and to reduce litter by 50% in six public primary schools in Georgetown within six months.
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