Green Line spreads environmental awareness among teachers
KUWAIT: The Green Line Environmental Group Kuwait (GLEG) announced the conclusion of a national project on environmental awareness for teachers yesterday. This program was held over two weeks in cooperation with the Ministry of Education. Khalid Al-Hajri, Chairman of GLEG, said the program is one of the biggest environmental awareness projects on the ministry level in the region. “This is one of the national environmental projects held by GLEG during the past 17 years in cooperation with other institutions. They all aim to raise environment awareness in the society,” he said.
This year, 1,200 teachers participated in the project from various schools from all areas. “It is a great achievement to witness this huge number of teachers responding and participating. GLEG considers this event as one of the biggest events of 2017. It is also one of the achievements of the Ministry of Education, which participated in making it successful,” stressed Hajri.
Its success and positive feedback were behind listing this project on the annual agenda of GLEG’s activities. “We will hold this program annually in cooperation with the Ministry of Education to spread awareness among teachers. This project focuses on enriching the teacher with information on all aspects of the Kuwaiti environment,” he added.
More than 30 environmental issues in Kuwait were discussed, including the ways of dealing with them. “These included environmental pollution and the ways of eliminating it, in addition to the importance of protecting the environment and its impact on health, social and economic aspects of individuals,” he noted. “Every environmental issue that was discussed included statistics, information, scientific, technical, legal, and environmental documents to provide full information, which increases the environmental awareness of teachers,” concluded Hajri.