KUWAIT, March 9 (KUNA) -- The State of Kuwait's Environment Public Authority (EPA) said on Tuesday that a center for environment awareness is set to be launched soon in cooperation between the Education Ministry and the United Nations Educational, Scientific , and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
EPA Director General Dr. Salah Al-Medhi told KUNA the center would focus on interaction with kinder garden, primary, and high school students and would be receiving students daily.
The announcement was on the sidelines of a lecture held at Khawla School for Girls on "A Clean Environment." The official said the center project would be completed by next school year and hopes to yield fruit as it interacts with the young to instill awareness and values of environment preservation at a young age.
"The center is a step in the right direction" and the project seeks to interact with people at the right point in their lives to make an impression and bring result. "Preserving our environment is a strategic objective on which the ministry and the authority agreed and sought to stress." Headmistress of the school, Samirah Al-Shatti, on her part said the school formed a team of students to work on increasing and spreading awareness among their peers. "Preservation of the environment and related values are not innate, at least in effective sense, and thus require care and attention so that the new generation grow with a sense of responsibility and accountability in this respect," she remarked.
The EPA official had at the end of the lecture urged the students to try and contribute to efforts to protect the environment and said countering littering and improper waste disposal was an easy step to start with.