Overview of the project

This project seeks to develop and prepare the school environment to respond to community resilience, building on existing good practice through the children’s curriculum in grades 6 and 5 as a foundation, with the support of science teachers as mentors.

It aims to :

• to create model citizens, concerned about their living environment and sensitive to the preservation of the environment with a good practical understanding of the issues involved
• to encourage children to be creative
• to mobilise the knowledge, skills and methodologies acquired by the pupils
• to use the school environment to promote good practices, e.g:
  • waste management after every break
  • design of the school space
  • micro-gardening
  • competitions: green class, green school, exhibitions
• to bring about a change in Senegalese society by focusing on the knowledge of children to influence the behaviour of adults

How do we do this ?

1. Creating scientific and environmental clubs
2. Having children do exhibitions adapted to the capacity-building materials of the actors concerned
3. Developing “school governments” already set up by civic acts (Ministry of the Environment models)
4. Encouraging a transfer of skills and inclusively push them to design their living environment
5. Provide reforestation plants in national campaigns