Here at the Bangladesh School we have been more than busy. We were delighted to be invited to the Roots & Shoots Awards UAE and we had a great time.
As in 2016 we celebrate Roots & Shoots 25th Anniversary, Bangladesh school showed at the event the 25 things they did as part of the Sustainable Schools Initiative Programme (SSI) of the Environment Agency Abu Dhabi (SSI).
Here is what kept us occupied, but very excited to see the “fruits” of our work. Many of these projects are continues. We love seeing the difference these activities make for animals, the environment and the community. The 25 Things we did are:
- Planting Ghaf Tree
- Celebrating World Water Day
- Celebrating Earth Day
- National Environment Day
- Awareness campaign to promote UN theme ‘ Seven Billion Dreams, One planet, Consume with Care’.
- Recycling ablution water for our plants
- Joined the Water Bank
- Clean up Campaign
- Puppet Show – Theme: Reduce Consumption.
- Mangrove field trip
- Fresh Fruit Day
- Renewable Energy: Saving 30% of our total energy requirements
- Changing into Energy Efficient Lights
- Installing Wind Tower
- Making Compost pit
- Barren Land gets a touch of life: our first tree plantation
- Visit to farms and educating farmers on water sustainability
- Integration of environmental education into curriculum
- Say No to Plastic: Campaign
- Campaigning against Air Pollution alongside Community Police
- Promoting Tree Plantation
- As a lead school our ECO-team sharing best practices with other schools and universities
- Efficient use of day light
- Honey from our ECO garden, featured on CNN also.
- Segregation of waste & Collecting e-Waste
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