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Dec 21, 2021

KOV’s green school project in environment preservation lauded

FA News Desk
KOICA-KOVs

The KOICA’s Korea Overseas Volunteer (KOV) Program has organized an event for its Green School Project final presentation and COVID response program today- December 21, 2021 in Lalitpur district.

With the technical support from Doko Recyclers Pvt. Ltd. Green School Project has been implemented in seven schools of Kageshwori Municipality and Lalitpur Sub-Metropolitan City.

During the program Doko Recyclers have presented completed activities and plans of the project, said the press release of KOICA Nepal office.

The three million Nepali Rupees project was aimed to educate students about solid waste management and empower them to take action to manage the waste at source, and also help them to build the knowledge and values they will need for a sustainable future.

The project broadens the mind set of students towards recyclable, non-recyclable and organic waste to minimize the waste from their community.

Green Schools Project has supported schools to set up and run a student-led environmental program by equipping them with infrastructures for waste management and formation of Eco Club, the release added.

Team members of Eco Club will be facilitated to lead campaigns starting from their own classrooms such as segregating waste at source efficiently and disposing responsibly, eliminating plastic bags with cotton bags or their own school bag, helping them to inspire their school and community to go green. It builds their leadership, communication and teamwork skills as well as their confidence, resilience and wellbeing.

During the program Deputy Mayor of Kageshwori Municipality Ms. Bindu Pudasaini Simkhada appreciated the initiative of KOICA Nepal Office by fostering a concern for the environment and its conservation in young minds who will be responsible and enthusiastic to save the world they live in.

She hopes that the continuous awareness training will change the mindset of students to develop valuable skills such as recycling and composting to minimize the waste from their community which will eventually lead to decrease the volume of waste which goes to the landfill.

Eco Club Members of Shramik Shanti Schools shared their experience about the awareness training program and how they taught the importance of waste segregation and composting to other students.

Eco Club Member of Ananda Bhairab Secondary School recited a poem about the role of students in preserving the environment.

Also, at the function, 10,000 units of hand sanitizer and 7700 units of hemp masks were handed over as the beneficiaries of the Project.

In her remarks Ms. Jinhwa Kim, Deputy Country Director of KOICA Nepal Office said, “I am very optimistic that the schools under this project would contribute towards continuation of the practice of waste segregation at school to reinforce behavioral changes among the students and contribute to a sustainable waste management system in our community.”

As environment has been identified as one of the prominent sectors for upcoming KOICA’s intervention in Nepal, KOICA Nepal Office is promoting Green ODA on all of its activities and projects from this year, it reads.