Sharjah Launches ‘Environment Awareness Award’

Sharjah Launched the ‘Environment Awareness Award’ with aims to increase students’ environmental awareness and encourage them to actively participate in environmental activities at school.

Bee’ah, an innovative education initiative from the Bee’ah School of Environment, along with the Sharjah Education Zone (SEZ) and Sharjah City for Humanitarian Services (SCHS) launched the Sharjah Environment Awareness Award.

With over AED100,000 in total prize money to be given away in different categories, the award programme aims to increase environmental awareness among students from kindergarten through to Grade 12, and encourage the youth to actively participate in environmental activities within their schools.

Explaining the idea behind the Sharjah Environment Awareness Award, The Director of Sharjah Education Zone, Fawzia Bin Gharib said: “This latest initiative was designed to motivate the youth to become more actively involved in the preservation of the environment. We are asking students to create and implement a sustainable, innovative and creative environmental programme that reduces waste within their schools, and then document their environmental activities.”

The initiative will see 145 public and private schools and around 150,000 students taking part, and will focus its first year on the topic of the three R’s: Reduce, Re-use, Recycle.

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Sharjah Launches ‘Environment Awareness Award’ | Green Prophet