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 22nd, 23rd and 24th 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.
