Empower 50,000 Young Green Ambassadors in China

On November 24th through 27th, our GECKO team, together with our core group of volunteers and interns, spent the week with over 200 students at Yangshuo Vocational Technical School, bringing environmental awareness education through engaging hands-on activities and presentations which introduced the challenges of our environment and sustainability, presented solutions to the problem of waste and the personal steps we can take to reduce our environmental footprint, and looked ahead to how to work towards a sustainable future.

A note received from a Yangshuo student: "I’m so happy to learn all the environmental knowledge brought by our international friends and to see their endeavor in raising people’s awareness to get together and protect the one and only world that we have. It was just like watching a movie seeing them and I got the inspiration from them that environmental protection is a cause that the every one of us should be involved in."

For more pictures and information, please visit http://www.greennovate.org/programs/yangshuo-2009/.

Thank you!

Links:

• Yangshuo Program Page
• GECKO Homepage
• GECKO on Facebook

On Saturday, December 5th, GECKO teamed up with members of the Shanghai volunteer group BEAN for a day of environmental education at Zhen Hua Primary School in Pudong, Shanghai, reaching a total of 80 students.

The workshop involved engaging activities including presentations made by one of your university student volunteers, videos on environmental issues, learning about waste separation, and decorating recycling bins to be placed throughout the school's classrooms.

To see more pictures from the day's events, please visit http://www.greennovate.org/programs/zhen-hua-primary-school-photos/

This is the second time GECKO has teamed up with BEAN to host an environmental education day in Shanghai. We are always looking for new partnerships in order to increase our number of trainers and develop core groups of volunteers.

Next year, we will be training BEAN volunteers to deliver our GECKO program themselves, helping us reach our goal of 50,000 students by the end of 2010.

We encourage you to leave your thoughts and feedback on our events!

Thank you for your support!

Links:

• Zhen Hua Primary School Photos
• GECKO Homepage
• Shanghai BEAN Volunteer Network