LAUCHING OF ENVIRONMENT CLUB AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AMONGST YOUTHS OF DIFFERENT INSTITUTION

           In order to educate and inspire youths and children on environmental commitments and responsibilities, the Green Volunteer Team and the Tunza Eco-Generation Ambassador organized an environmental club launching ceremony in three different schools in the suburbs of Yaounde Cameroon on the 22^nd, 23^rd and 24^th of July 2014. This launching was response from calls by staffs and authorities of this institution to drilled their pupils and students on youth environmental training and empowerment based on the objective set by Samsung and UNEP. These responses came as a result of the wonderful volunteer work of Tunza Eco-Generation regional ambassador in that part of the country. This wonderful event took place in three different settings involving pupils and students of different institutions.

            It was an exciting and colourful event attended by many who received training from the green volunteer team based on the values and objective of Tunza Eco-Generation environmental platform. We in lighting and empowered the participants with the responsibility to engage in nature protection, encourage them to use news feats to pressurize the government to take important action toward environmental protection, conservation and protection. 

            Furthermore, the event was characterized with an action plan of green ways to better the lives of the participants and the planet through these environmental initiatives. We equally put heads together and designed the green school campaign. The program?s goal is to give all schools across the country a green make over within one generation through our activities.

            Finally, we shared eco-friendly gifts, flyers, rulers, booklets from Samsung to the participants to make green changes in their lives. The event was equally spiced by a quiz and a debate on climate change.

            To conclude, the Tunza Eco-Generation environmental networking platform for children and youth being patronized by Samsung Engineering and the United Nation Environmental Program, UNEP gives hope to the future of our environment. We will like to inform Tunza that ?the harvest is much but the labourers are few? thus we will need more resources and ambassadors to reach out to more youths and children especially to remote parts of the country. Again, because of technological challenges, many of the youths are unable to visit the website. The way forward is that such initiatives should be more intensified through monitoring and evaluation. We would be happy if the activities of Tunza can be fully run in Cameroon through an office to help monitor long term initiatives.