Environment

The Importance of Making Children Environmentally Conscious

by rumana husain | April 1, 2010 at 08:17 am

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The basic theme taken up by the Children's Museum for Peace and Human Rights (CMPHR) this year is 'Environment'. In order to facilitate a better understanding of the issues involved in this vast theme and encourage students and teachers to take some concrete steps to protect the environment as well as make it more livable, a number of workshops are being held back to back, in schools in Karachi, Pakistan (where the CMPHR is based). Campaign-material is also sent out to schools all over the country.

Children's Museum for Peace and Human Rights An extention of the Teacher's Workshop on environmental education are these Student's Sessions, conducted by CMPHR's team inorder to develope a better understanding of the core issues being addressed in our new "I Have a Dream ... of a Green, Clean World" Campaign. The title of the Student's Session is "An Environmental History of the Relationship Between Human Beings and Nature. These student's sessoins are being held in individual schools and are arranged on a first come - first serve basis. They are being held on an ongoing basis till May 2010.

The aims of these Student sessions are:
• Create awareness about basic environmental issues i.e. climate change, global warming, unsustainable consumption of resources, environmental degradation, etc.
• Realize the importance of making students environmentally conscious.
• Understand why we are facing an environmental crisis and what the consequences of the continuous abuse of our natural environment can be.
• Create awareness about concrete steps that can be taken by individuals, schools, and societies to help protect the environment.

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Uwe Paschen

at 17:34 on April 1st, 2010

This is a great post Rumana. The Museum for Peace and Human Rights (CMPHR) is doing a great job and we need many more of such initiatives. The future off Humanity depends on it.

rumana husain

at 03:24 on April 2nd, 2010

yes, thanks Uwe, and i so miss my role in it. after working with the cmphr for 7 years, i haven't gone back to my job when i took an extended leave to work on my book karachiwala, but hope to do so when the museum building is about to be completed. it will be an exciting experience, quite new for the country, to have an actual children's museum.