Earth-friendly schools: Strenghten awareness and capacities

The project promotes attitudinal change and courages communities to consider their life actions and practices for the protection of the environment and conservation of natural resources, through:

• Setting up of school environmental clubs
• Environmental awareness and education.
• Implementation of environmentally friendly actions at school level.
• Implementation of environmentally friendly actions at community level, applying the service-learning methodology.

A healthy environment is a basic prerequisite for the enjoyment of a large number of children’s rights. In addition, through different consultations with children on their concept of well-being, they give nature an absolutely central role in it.

Therefore, it is relevant to strengthen the awareness and capacities, as well as to promote a change in values, practices and habits in children and in the educational community, in order to reinforce the protection of the environment in their school, homes and community.

• Informative education
• Building resilience

Informative education

• Setting up of school environmental clubs.
• Environmental awareness and training.
• Capacity-building for the transformation of non-hazardous solid waste.
• Exchange of experiences.
• School environmental competition.
• School environmental fairs.

Building resilience

• Implementation of environmental actions in the school.
• Methodological development and implementation of three service-learning initiatives.