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School helps boost students environmental awareness |
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Friday, 11 February 2011 23:32 |
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KUWAIT: The French School of Kuwait held a 'Protect the Environment Awareness Day' at the school premises in Salmiya yesterday
, to help teach pupils there how best to conserve and protect the natural environment. The event was organized as part of the school's efforts to support the educational sector, after a previous event made a significant contribution to the scientific development initiative by holding a 'Maintaining a Clean Environment' awareness day previously.
The French School welcomed New Year in 2011 by supporting the cause of environmentalism in Kuwait and the need to create and maintain a healthy environment since it shares the same love for and loyalty to Kuwait, as well as sharing in the tremendous joy at the upcoming celebrations to mark the 50th and 20th anniversaries of the nation's independence and liberation respectively, along with the fifth anniversary of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah's investiture, explained a school officia l.
At yesterday's awareness day, which was attended by the French Ambassador to Kuwait Nada Yafi, the pupils enjoyed a range of scientific activities, with their artworks displayed at an exhibition organized for the event, as well as enjoying six workshops held to teach them more about various aspects of environmental protection.
Also during the event, Ambassador Yafi and the school administration jointly planted a 'Plumeria' tree as a symbolic gesture emphasizing the importance of protecting the environment.
Parents were also invited to celebrate their children's achievements during the previous scientific event, with the pupils using recycled materials to create handmade artworks. The event concluded with a prize-giving ceremony at which outstanding pupils were presented with awards for their productive participation in the school's environmental club's activities and received testimonial certificates.
In her address during the ceremony, the owner of the French School, Muna Al-Khaled, expressed great pride in the pupils' achievements. "Your presence and support for our initiative to conserve the environment is an honor and the school is proud of what the pupils and teachers have presented here," she said.
We hope that further efforts will sustain what we witnessed here today. We hope that we've been successful advocates in communicating the message of conserving our green Kuwait, and we promise to spare no efforts in protecting it for society as a whole.
The school's environmental club, which organized yesterday's event, was established with the help of teachers and pupils at the school in November 2010. Its mission is to raise awareness of the importance of protecting the environment and avoiding the more harmful aspects and habits of contemporary life. It seeks to achieve this through promoting waste recycling to benefit both the planet and humankind.
Source : Kuwait Times
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