EcoACT
The project aims to promote knowledge, skills and eco-friendly attitudes among youth
while also aiming to provide local youth community development and empowerment by
supporting youth to take action, be pro-active and get involved in pushing for eco-
friendly actions (like cleaning up affected areas) and behaviors (adopting
reduce/reuse/recycle behaviors). The project allow for youth leadership, foster social
engagement while also helping the municipality and high schools bring the issue of
environmentally friendly behaviors to the spotlight of public attention.
The general objective of the project is to raise the awareness of 80 students on
environmental protection measures and get them involved in the development, planning
and implementation of 5 community Eco-friendly initiatives. By implementing the project
we want, with the help of the volunteers, to promote to students from the high schools,
through non-formal activities and workshops, the following 5 principles of environmental
education:
1- Awareness: to acquire knowledge of pollution and environmental degradation.
2- Knowledge: to acquire variety of experience in, and acquire a basic
understanding of the environment and its associated problems
3- Attitudes: to acquire a set of values for environmental protection.
4- Skills and capacity Building: acquire the skills for identifying and solving
environmental problems. Further, to develop ability to draw unbiased inferences
and conclusions.
5- Participation: To provide them with an opportunity to be actively involved at all
levels in environmental community initiatives.
