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Young Voices for Conservation - School Programme
“The TrEES School Programme has done something that no other has done before this. That is the programme has made us “wake up” to the surroundings and the global concerns on our environment. It has made us realize that we are the youth on whose shoulders lies the responsibility of conserving the beauty and vigor of forests. The programme has thus instilled in us, a sense of belonging which we never felt before.”
"Young Voices for Conservation" harnesses the spirit and energy of the youth to create positive change in themselves and the community around them. The programme currently involves secondary schools from Selangor, KL and Putrajaya and aims to develop future leaders who are passionate about the environment and active in its conservation. Protecting the environment for our youth is one of the best retirement plans any person can invest in.
The programme helps prepare our youth for life, by providing them with tools and skills they will need to succeed, allowing them to explore their creativity and unlock their hidden potential, and to achieve results they never knew possible.
Under the programme, students are trained to become effective role models for their peers and act as agents of change in school and at home to minimise their impact on the environment. Students participate in training workshops to build their capacity and skills, as well as fieldtrips to the forest, to strengthen their connection with the natural environment. During the training workshops, students learn important life-skills such as project planning, financial management, problem solving and communication skills.
Using the skills they have learned, students plan and run an environmental campaign that they run in their school. They become mentors to their classmates, showing them how to take action to protect the environment. Their campaigns are effective because it is by students for students.
Through their passion, the student teams motivated themselves and their classmates to “take shorter showers to save water” to “turn off the lights when leaving the room” to "keep the wrapper in your pockets until you found a dustbin". Simple everyday actions that become the foundation for their path towards environmental consciousness. Students came to realize that they can be active environmentalists no matter what career they pursue, or what field interests them. The environment affects all things, and is in turn, affected by all things
If your school would like to get involved, contact TrEES today. New intake of schools begins in February 2012.
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