By Christine Parfitt | Founder and Managing Director
Our latest visit to the schools on Nusa Lembongan has left us inspired and enthused!
There is so much activity on Nusa Lembongan at the moment and the island has received alot of external attention since the release of a video displaying local Manta Rays swimming through a plastic soup. Latest research from Marine Megafauna Foundation estimated that these creatures consume 39 pieces of plastic per hour! It shows just how important our work is educating the local community and providing simple solutions to the problem.
Our best schools on Nusa Lembongan, SD1 and SD2, have signed an MOU and are teaching the education program this year to the incoming year 4s and 5s. They began classes this week. We also have great news from our school that was lagging behind. The principal is keen to undertake another teacher workshop so that teachers can have a better understanding of the program and can accurately teach the content to their students. We have hired a School Communications and Support officer based on Nusa Lembongan to assist all of our teachers to teach the program and accurately explain the plastic pollution problem. We are really pleased with this result and are looking forward to completing the tasks outlined in this Global Giving Project within the next 12 months.
We have received support from the local and business community to expand our work to include more schools and potentially new sources of plastic free water. We have engaged one new school on the island and we hope to begin a new crowdfunding campaign in the coming months to undertake this work... we will send more information soon :)
In the broader context of Bottle for Botol, we have completed our curriculum for year 1-3 students. This means our plastic pollution curriculum spans all school-aged students (year 1-12) and now allows us to engage the younger kids to create solutions. Our latest curriculum combines some really engaging activities which have been designed in collaboration with Australian and Indonesian teachers and we look forward to beginning teaching these activities at all our primary schools in the coming months.
Thanks so much for supporting our project,
The Bottle for Botol team.
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