New ‘Green Warriors’ to attack litter at public markets
On April 23rd, ENV launched its Green Warrior’s Program in Hanoi, holding the first extracurricular meeting of the student club at the United Nations International School (UNIS).
The club is part of a new pilot program aimed at getting students actively involved in helping protect the environment. The Green Warriors meet once each month. The students are tasked with researching a particular environmental problem then designing, planning, and carrying out specific activities aimed at addressing the problem.
The first session focuses on litter in public markets. After undergoing a brief introduction to the problem by ENV educators, the students visited the Chau Long market in Hanoi and carried out a survey to learn more about the extent of the problem. The students then met again to brainstorm ways that they might respond to the problem (particularly dealing with plastic bags discarded everywhere), and plan a series of activities that they will carry out during one of their next club meetings. Following the litter campaign the students will return to the market and conduct another survey, and hopefully see that their efforts have had some lasting impact on the problem. As a final measure of their efforts to affect change through action, the students will prepare and carry out presentations in their schools for other students to help raise awareness about the problem, and what they did about it, as well as whether it worked!
The pilot program currently has 11 outstanding students from the seven schools participating in the club, and is part of ENV’s urban awareness program in Hanoi Schools.
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Disscussion about plastic bag among students in UNIS School
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