Ecology workshop with school children at CST Bir

On Monday 23^rd of November 2009, Deer Park Institute organized an environmental awareness workshop with the school children of CST Bir. The kids were all very young, from 1^st to 4^th Standard. They were all cute, chubby & very noisy! Our aim for this workshop is to introduce to them the growing problem of waste in Bir and waste management as the first step in handling our own waste. Since they were all very small, it was challenging for us to reach them, to deliver the message, to make them understand about the waste problem and also to make them realize their contributions to the problem and how they can personally take responsibility through small actions in changing their habits in a positive way.

We assumed that kids wouldn’t like to have a long and heavy preaching session, hence we designed our workshop in such a way that they would have fun alongside learning something out of games during the whole session. But we ran half an hour over our planned schedule just trying to make them quiet & attentive. No wonder!

However, the result was quite positive in the end, judging by the answers they gave to our questions.. And they left the classroom with the tune of our singing energizer played during the workshop. We are looking forward to doing more such activities with these kids in future.