Friday March 31, 2006
Love our rivers
PUPILS of Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Teloi Kanan in Kuala Ketil, Kedah, are taught to love their rivers as an awareness programme created by their school to teach them to preserve the environment.
The school hopes through the programmes, the children, when they grew up, will be more committal in protecting their surroundings.
Teacher S.Kalaimani, the school’s coordinator of River Care Education Centre and advisor of ‘Love Our River Campaign’, said the programme was introduced to the pupils by chance.
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School children are taught to protect the environment and rivers through the ‘Love Our River Campaign’. |
“We saw their interest in the environmental issue and decided to introduce the programme instead.”
He said they are now proud to pioneer the programme.
“We made it compulsory for the pupils and teachers to be involved in the programme. Among the activities held regularly at the river near their school were river monitoring and watch.”
Kalaimani said they conduct water samplings and carried out checks on micro-organism found in the river to understand its eco-system.
“As a result of this, the school had adopted Sungai Nyior as their part of the project.”
He said they received funding from Global Environment Centre (GEC) and Scout Association of Malaysia for their activities.
He said their activities at the river had also created awareness among the residents and factories located there.
“The river is less pollution now compared with a year ago.”
He said the success of the programme has also created an interest among pupils and teachers from other schools in the district.
“We are willing to share our knowledge to preserve the environment. We are also willing to help others to set up their own centre to carry out the activities.”
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