Environment team at KEPS marks World Children’s Day

KUWAIT: Based on its social responsibility towards consolidating and strengthening voluntary environmental work and disseminating true environmental knowledge among groups of the society, the Friends of the Environment team at the Kuwaiti Environmental Protection Society participated in the celebration of World Children’s Day organized by Yarmouk Health City that included many activities in the health and environmental fields as well as the psychological and social fields.

“The youth fall within the interests of the society through specialized projects of the environment team program, which includes youths aged 8 to 18. Therefore, the society decided to participate in the celebration with many activities of interest to this age group,” Public Relations Officer at KEPS Maali Al-Uqab said.

“The schedule, which was administratively supervised and organized by Anwar Al-Muhareb, a member of the association, also included environmental artwork for children aged 4 years and older, distributing environmentally friendly garbage bags and urging them to clean up the site, organizing a workshop for planting seeds in plastic bottles using cotton and water, making a piece of art from furniture cartons and decorating it with simple materials from nature, and organizing a composting workshop to recycle leftover food, leaves and soil so that it can become arable soil,” Uqab said, praising Yarmouk Health City.

“The team is composed of Kuwaiti youth under the age of 18, and the association is keen to comprehensively qualify them through their participation in environmental conferences and exhibitions locally and internationally. The association instills in them the value of environmental citizenship and prepares them to engage in voluntary environmental work,” she added.

“The association works to enhance the value of environmental citizenship among team members through the behavior that the individual adopts to protect the environment and its natural resources and preserve them from pollution, which raises awareness of the scarcity of natural resources and their limited ability for renewing them,” Uqab said. “Moreover, the importance of raising awareness of environmental issues is high, as the individual’s role in society reflects on a large scale the principles of preserving nonrenewable sources that are vital to sustainable development,” she concluded.