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Jun 16, 2010 News
Aimed at guiding the attitudes and actions of youths toward the environment, the Environmental Community Health Organisation (ECHO) has streamlined a school-based programme which will target ECHO Club members.
According to ECHO’s Executive Director, Royston King, the programme will take on the form of an essay writing competition which encourages participants to write about what a clean and healthy environment means to them.
The competition in fact commenced yesterday at the 10 ECHO clubs across Regions Three and Four, and entries will be accepted until June 21, King disclosed yesterday. With a word limit of about 250, the completed essays will be judged based on their content, clarity and expression of ideas, paragraphing and language.
King noted that the essays should be addressed to ECHO, and contain the participants’ personal information including name, address, telephone numbers if any and birth certificate or other proof of identification.
This programme, according to King, is being done in collaboration with Gizmos and Gadgets, a popular city establishment, which has already promised to provide two cellular phones as the first and second prizes. Another city business that has partnered with ECHO has assured the third prize of a bicycle.
Through this programme, the Executive Director noted, club members will be able to reflect on their attitude as it relates to the natural environment and aspire to help preserve and protect it.
And in order to further promote the mission of ECHO, King disclosed that plans are already apace to introduce about 10 additional clubs in schools in Region Three.
“We have been getting positive feedback from the various schools and the Heads of other schools have been calling on us to include their schools in the programme. We are extremely happy to do this and we have already started to mobilise resources to include all primary schools in Guyana.”
And in order to further expand the programme, King said that measures will be engaged to put in place a website which will be available to all schools with internet access.
Earlier this year, ECHO stepped up its efforts a notch with the introduction of an innovative venture, which was also geared at raising awareness on environmental issues. As another approach to dealing with the preservation and protection of the environment, that initiative was dubbed ‘the Green Ambassador Programme’.
According to King, the environmental education programmes are intended to empower youths to be agents of change in their schools and local communities. Through service learning, community partnerships, and cross-culture, the programme aims at fostering personal growth and leadership skills to help youths tackle the most critical environmental issues facing the planet, King underscored.
“The Green Ambassador Programme introduces them to the essential environmental issues of our time. Students will also be taught the service learning process of awareness, understanding, analysis, action, assessment, and broadcasting.”
The participating youths, King noted, will find it particularly important that they can become leaders in this cause, given the fact that most communities are largely under-represented in the environmental movement.
King explained that most environments tend to be most detrimentally affected by environmental problems such as poor drinking water, carcinogenic air, and the health problems that derive from these problems.
This reality, he emphasised, adds a greater sense of purpose and motivation to students who embrace the issues on a personal, intellectual, and moral level.
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