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Mangrove Restoration Project… 12 schools to participate in waste management, energy conservation
The Mangrove Restoration Project is seeking to have schools located in communities within the Golden Grove to Belfield Mangrove Reserve, properly manage their waste and conserve energy.
This is being done in collaboration with the Engineering students of the University of Guyana to achieve the solid waste management and energy conservation campaign ongoing in five communities.
According to Chairperson of the Mangrove Action Committee, Annette Arjoon-Martins, 12 schools located within the communities will be part of the awareness campaign. She added that the Ministry of Education is a representative on the Mangrove Board and has been supportive of the project’s educational programmes.
“We decided that it would be appropriate to start with the secondary schools and then work downwards to the nursery level,” Arjoon-Martins noted.
She related that the Electrical Engineering students were fortunate to be networked with Dr G R Rao of the Energy and Research Institute which is located in Delhi, India. They visited some of the schools in the mangrove reserve over the weekend to do a preliminary assessment of the energy consumption and solid waste management.
“This was necessary to ensure that the awareness element of our programme would be custom designed to suit the on-the-ground situation as well as the age of the target audience…Most importantly, also, the immediate practical measures can be implemented as part of the awareness campaign, as sometimes we highlight the problem, but do not take action to address it after,” Arjoon-Martins said.
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