2023-04-18 13:50:37
News from Angola – Unesco, in partnership with Coca-Cola/Refriango and ANV, launched on Monday an environmental education project in schools in Luanda.
According to the press release that Notícia de Angola had access to today, the initiative will benefit around 20,000 students from the age of 13 with training and awareness actions on the importance of collecting and treating solid waste in order to improve sustainability. environment in the country.
According to the document, the protocol between the CNU, Coca-Cola/Refriango and the ANV also provides for the installation of ecopoints in the 10 educational institutions of the 1st and 2nd secondary cycle of the Network of Schools Associated with UNESCO.
The act was opened by the Secretary of State for the environment, Paula.
To this end, the schools selected for the “Environmental Education in Schools” project are: Luanda Medium Institute of Economics, Medium Industrial Institute of Luanda, Medium Commercial Institute of Luanda, Telecommunications Institute of Luanda, Medium Polytechnic Institute Alda Lara, Complexo Escolar Teresiana de Viana, College No. 1140 1º de Maio, College No. 1124 Nzinga Mbande, Castelo School of Health and Lyceum No. 5106 Neves Bendinha.
The initiative is part of the “Ecomovimento Oceanos” and challenges students and teachers from participating schools to propose solutions to combat plastic pollution in the oceans, in line with the 14th Sustainable Development Goal of the United Nations for 2030, which aims to conserve and use sustainably use oceans, tides and marine resources for sustainable development.
According to Nuno Cruz, president of the Nação Verde association, “it is imperative that environmental education projects be developed in educational institutions, because it stimulates the socio-environmental awareness of the school community”.
Nuno Cruz referred that the implementation of ecopoints in schools will contribute in some way to meeting the challenges of eliminating solid urban waste pollution in communities.
The “Environmental Education in Schools” project also reaffirms Coca-Cola’s outstanding involvement in promoting environmental sustainability in Angola.
Paula Lima, Senior Marketing Manager for Coca-Cola in Angola, defends environmental education as a safe bet due to its multiplier effect to create aware and active citizens.
“These are the change agents we need. Students in this program will learn how to change their consumption behavior and how to intervene in a positive way in our surroundings”, he said.
On the other hand, Paula Lima added that environmental sustainability is a long-term project in which we all have to participate. Through the JAMII platform and the World Without Waste campaign, Coca-Cola assumes its responsibility to energize and involve all citizens in this urgent mission, which will make Angola a cleaner, more resilient country with a healthy environment that benefits us. not just for us, but for future generations as well.”
While Tânia Jardim, Refriango’s Marketing Administrator, stresses that the signed protocol will reinforce the intention of Refriango and UNESCO, now together with the ANV, to contribute to the development and training of young people in the area of health, education civic education and environmental education, an objective that was formalized for the first time in December last year.
The winning project will be awarded at the Ecological Fair of the National Commission of Angola for UNESCO, scheduled for June 5, World Environment Day, in Luanda.
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