JAAI Environment Programme for School Children (2007)

Environment Awareness Programme For School Children

Environment Awareness Programme for School Children, Nurture Nature was organized on 31st January 2007, at Ahlcon Public School, Mayur Vihar, Phase I, New Delhi.

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The Programme was organized in collaboration with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and JICA Alumni Association of India (JAAI). The aim of the programme was to increase students’ awareness about the environment through fun-filled competitive activities.

The programme started with the planting of saplings by the Chief Guest, Mr. Tomyuki Fujii, Resident Representative, JICA India Office. This was followed by the traditional ceremony of lighting the lamp, which signifies an auspicious beginning to an event. Before the beginning of the actual competition, the Principal oriented the audience about the importance of nature.

The programme was spread over three different events, each with their own respective venues. These included – Intra-School On the Spot Painting Competition for students of classes I-V, Inter School Ad-Zap and Best out of Waste competitions for students of classes VI-IX.

Perhaps the most notable of the three was the Ad Zap Competition, where the teams from different schools were given interesting environment related topics such as 'Promotion of Paper Bags', 'Save Our Environment,' 'Keeping Our Rivers Clean'. 'Green Clean India.' and 'Nurture Nature'.

Ahlcon Public School bagged the 1st prize during this event, with Ahlcon International School and Amity International School Noida sharing the trophy for the 2nd prize.

The Best out of Waste was also an interesting activity, where students were encouraged to use only waste materials to build working and static models of various useful commodities. The host team created a hydroelectric dam using waste sheets of thermocol and obsolete, discarded electronic items. Ahlcon International School was awarded the 1st prize for this event, with Bhatnagar International School taking the position of 1st runner up and Vishva Bharti Public School, Noida as the 2nd runner up.

Before the close of the event, Mr. T.Fujii addressed the gathering. He spoke eloquently and at length about the irrelevance of national boundaries in the cause of advancement of mankind; and about the need for protecting our environment as our inheritance to future generations. The students were moved by his simple speech. Mrs. Shradha Pandey, the teacher co-ordinator, thanked JICA and JAAI, particularly its President, Dr. O.P.Dewal and Secretary, Mr. R.K.Jaiswal for facilitating the conduct of the programme at Ahlcon Public School for such a noble cause.

In conclusion, we can say that the programme was a huge success. It successfully highlighted the fact that our environment needed our immediate attention if there were to be any hopes of our survival.