WGF’s Livelihood & Sustainability Council’s (LSC) mission is to enhance rural economy through co-creating and advancing rural enterprises, using technology innovations and scientific processes, sharing best practices and developing techniques to foster trade and employment for rural populations.
While the entire world is galvanizing to address rapidly spiraling devastating impacts from global warming, the long-haul nature of the problem needs us to create equally large bench of well-grounded future leaders. There is no better place to do that than the young minds in middle and high schools.
Global warming driven challenges require a multi-disciplinary approach with experiential learning. WGF is partnering with Auroville & Rotary International to help scale pioneering model that teaches young minds, via hands-on work, endemic flora& fauna, nutrition & health, climate & environment, land & water resource management.
WGF and Rotary Club of Madras Coromandel are steering The Environment Education Project at Pitchandikulam Forest, Tamil Nadu, India. The project focuses on setting up an Environment Education program for 4 schools near the Siruseri Lake. The project will involve holistic, localized, activity based environmental education sessions for students like biodiversity, puppet shows on Wetland/TDEF, elders interviews by the students, watershed projects, world environmental day celebrations, waste education & management and more.
‘Ecoshool’ clusters around a central ‘EcoCenter’ model is leveraging already completed a city-level transformation (from massive trash-dump to vibrant forest) and 50+ years of innovation. State Government of Tamil Nadu, local Rotary Clubs and IT Center Corporations have already committed their support. Deployment plan is ready for first cluster of schools.
Programs present a compelling scaling opportunity to be taken to more than 2 million middle schools and high schools in India touching nearly more than 200 million future youth leaders.
Just $1000 in Alumni contribution can help bring this revolutionary and simple model to several schools in your communities.
