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Today the standard one, two and three students of the New Life Presbyterian School in the Orange Walk District were roaming around town with the aim of creating an environmental awareness in the community. The idea was derived from current issues affecting Belize. In an attempt to further educate the students the school’s management contacted the Association of Protected Areas Management Organization (APAMO) to assist them in passing on the message to the enthused students.

Rebecka Hernandez, Teacher

“Today we call it Environmental Awareness Day whereby we are studying this unit on conservation and to culminate this unit we are taking the middle division of our school on a nature walk where we are sensitizing the community on environmental issues affecting our society and our country as a whole even globally, what we are doing today is that children have made bird feeders so that they could attract bird to come in because we have seen that there is a scarcity of wildlife and the more trees we plant the more birds will come and it is just this sense of creating a good environment for our animals as well as for our people and most importantly is keeping our environment clean so we can see the children with garbage bags also they are picking up garbage in their way and also they have their placards there that says pollution the causes and effects our land, our air and our waters, so that’s basically what we are portraying.”

Janine Ayuso-Reporter

“How did you come up with the idea to start with the environmental awareness for the children?”

Rebecka Hernandez, Teacher

“Is because of the issues that are affecting us at this point in time also the pollution that is around us and then we have that in our curriculum therefore we need to be teaching that and I believe teaching them young and having the parents involved as well is a big thing for our community.”

Janine Ayuso-Reporter

“What about the association EU and APAMO?”

Rebecka Hernandez, Teacher

“We just have APAMO come in to us give us a talk because we are dealing with protected areas and since they are in protecting our natural resources and this offshore drilling campaign so we are as a school and children and important people in the community we are advocates to that because we really want to see our natural resources being protected.”

As a part of their curricular activities the school has planned a trip for the students to the Crooked Tree Wild Life Sanctuary, the Museum of Belize and Old Belize. The trip will take place on Thursday.

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