A Safari of

Environmental Education

 

at Sukowaten Baru Elementary School

When human have conflicts with nature, the result is actualy just misery for themselves. It is important to know and to understand as soon as possible. After conducting the first event in Sanggar Anak Alam School, an environment-lover students group from various universities continued their actions to spread awareness so that people will care about environment, even it is started since elementary school age.

Fully determined, in the range of two months (April – May 2015), this students group are doing environmental education in nine elementary schools and one orphanage, consists of Elementary School of Sukowaten Baru, Elementary School of Lempuyangan, Elementary School of Balirejo, Elementary School of Joannes Bosco, Salvation Army orphanage, Elementary School of Babarsari, Elementary School of Muhammadiyah Karangbendo, Elementary School of Juru Gentong and and Elementary School of Canisius Sorowajan.

In each place, they sprinkled awareness of the importance of efforts to preserve environment. By doing simple things, such as decorating dustbin, having a discussion about nature and environment and cleaning up the school yard, already touched and encouraged children to do those things enthusiastically. "Why didn’t you like to contact with garbage?," a student asked the children. Innocently they replied, "The garbage is stink! Disgusted!" That is the reality for many people who do not understand, in fact, garbage can be processed and bring revenue for the people who manage it, otherwise, disaster will come when people do not care about it.

Hopefully, the smile and spirit of these children will be the starting point of their concern to environment and nature management.***

At Lempuyangan Elementary School

At Lempuyangan Elementary School

At Balirejo Elementary School

At Joannes Bosco Elementary School

At Salvation Army

At Babarsari Elementary School