Environmental Education and Awareness Raising on Sustainable Use of Natural Resources for School Children and Youth, Including Media Participation

15 Jun 2010 Yerevan, Armenia, Asia Education

Nazeli Vardanyan

The main objective of the project is environmental education of school children as well as awareness raising among youth sector and activating them in civic participation for sustainable use of natural resources, biodiversity conservation, and nature preservation.

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The project will seek through series of training sessions, seminars to introduce environmental rights protection issues, general environmental and in particular climate change problems solving techniques, making linkages between environment and security, promoting access to information and justice in environmental matters. In addition 6 environmental awareness raising films will be shown during the training sessions to project participants making people to think about future hazards and not to make further harm to biodiversity, to learn on how to use it in a sustainable way.

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A specially formed “environmental action groups” from children and youth will be responsible for reviling environmental problems on local bases and trying to solve them by the support of local authorities. Some published materials and puzzles with pictures of animals and plants registered in red book will be printed and distributed in schools. Some activities in form of competitions will be organized in schools for the best environmental article and paint. Also some tree planting activities will be organised in yards of the schools with the participation of school children and other public representatives. All these activities will be covered by media. Giving children and youth knowledge and experience on environmental vital problems and how to prevent them will help ensure the sustainability of the project by giving them skills and knowledge on how they can address and solve environmental problems and protect their rights on their own, bring positive changes with little or no outside support.

We would expect that many of the participants will then continue to be involved in environmental protection actions. With the created sense of community solidarity the project will seek to motivate the participants and change some apathetic attitudes. This plays a significant role, as motivation is among the key factors that brings about self-confidence and self-sustainability with little external support.

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