October 11, 2013, Kyiv — Kyiv Lyceum #227 held an award ceremony to celebrate winners of contests for the best video/PowerPoint presentation and wall-newspaper dedicated to sustainable food – within the framework of the Global Green Action Week and the Green Consumer Week’2013 “Environment on Your Plate” campaign.

MAMA-86 representatives – campaign coordinator Olena Skrypko and head of the Kyiv City Branch Natalia Chyzhmakova – handed diplomas and presents to the winners of the contests among 8th to 11th grade students, “Think Logically, Consume Ecologically!” (presentations) and “Dietary Consumption Menu” (wall-newspapers).

Eighteen presentations and 68 wall-newspapers had been submitted. Ms. Chyzhmakova points out that the students treated the contests seriously: “In their works they did not limit themselves to only the information contained in the materials they had received from MAMA-86, but independently found a lot of what those materials missed.”

Concurrently with the contests, an exhibition was organized, “The Golden Autumn,” featuring sustainable consumption in works by 1st to 4th grade students.

The works by the winners of “Think Logically, Consume Ecologically!”:

• Yana Chernysh, 9-A class, 1st place;
• Maria Baranova, 9-A class, 1st place;
• Olena Buchakchiyska, 9-C class, 2nd place;
• Volodymyr Klymchuk, 11-B class, 2nd place;
• Kateryna Zamriy, 11-B class, 3rd place;
• Darya Kurchenko, 11-A class, 3rd place;
• Dmytro Meyta, 8-C class, 3rd place.

A summary presentation by Biology & Ecology Teacher Sofia Lazarchuk.

Please see pictures from the award ceremony on the MAMA-86 Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.521325844617010.1073741844.190090101073921&

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Green Consumer Weeks in Ukraine – week-long concentrated awareness campaigns aimed at popularizing environmentally responsible consumption and focused on one of important themes of sustainable consumption – have been carried out since 2012 by the Ukrainian National Environmental NGO "MAMA-86" with support from the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation and in collaboration with various partner organizations.

The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation has been conducting similar campaigns in their country in October for many years running. These campaigns have helped significantly increase public awareness of advantages of environment-friendly way of living, develop a legal framework that encourages sustainable consumption and prohibits or limits supply of environmentally harmful goods and services, as well as form a circle of eco-responsible producers and sellers who, on their part, further the transition of the Swedish society toward more sustainable consumption behavior.