| At Kyiv School 85, Students Have Lessons and Games on Sustainable Food, Save Trees and Hang Birdfeeders |
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| Friday, 04 October 2013 00:00 | ||||
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During the week, schoolchildren collected and sold over 1000 kilograms of wastepaper, mostly food packaging and flyers from food supermarkets. The school also put forward an initiative supported by a few other schools in the Holosiyivsky Raion: use the receipts from the wastepaper to buy trees and plant them in the Holosiyivsky Park. The initiative was realized on Oct. 3. According to School Principal Tetyana Fedunova, the action thus had a double effect: “We save some trees and plant others.”
Lessons on sustainable food were held at all classes. The lessons were developed by the school’s teachers based on information materials provided by MAMA-86. These materials were also put in the students’ diaries so that the campaign’s ideas would reach their parents. Besides the teachers, high schoolers conducted environment-oriented sessions and games for their younger fellows. The seniors also gave tasks to juniors paricipating in an eco-quest on Oct. 1. Moreover, schoolchildren produced and posted wall-newspapers on a special board, as well as made and hung birdfeeders. The school mess that week offered a special, environment-friendly, menu – local & seasonal. On Oct. 1, representatives from MAMA-86 and the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation visited the school. Please see photos taken on that day on the MAMA-86 Facebook page: *** 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.
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September 27 – October 4, Kyiv — Specialized School #85 joined the “Environment on Your Plate” campaign with a whole set of initiatives and actions – both educational and practical. These activities, carried out within the framework of the Global Green Action Week and MAMA-86’ Green Consumer Week’2013 involved all 500 students of the school, and through them, their parents.
