West Ruimveldt Primary benefits from Green Generation Project
The students of the West Ruimveldt Primary School were delighted to be the first to benefit from the #Green Generation Guyana project, organised by Communities Ministry in collaboration with the Education Ministry.
The #Green Generation Guyana project was launched at the school and is aimed at promoting a greener Guyana for all. Twenty-two bins – blue and green in colour and representing inorganic and organic waste – were handed over to the school,
The bins that were donated
and are to be distributed to 11 classrooms.
The bins were handed over to the school by the Project Coordinator Karen Roopchand.
Chairperson of initiative, Danielle Campbell explained that throughout the initiative, students will be taught how to separate waste into materials that are harmful to the environment and those that are environmentally friendly. It also involved the reuse and recycling of materials that still have an economic value.
She noted that currently, there is a special need for children to be made aware of proper waste disposal habits.
Chief Education Officer, Marcel Hutson used the opportunity to remind the students that they have a responsibility to keep the environment clean.
Hutson said “I am happy that we are starting at this tender age, because it is sometimes difficult to get persons to move from a certain behaviour pattern that is why I am happy that we are starting with our young minds so that their minds can be invigorated and energised so that they could be more receptive to where we want to go”.
The practice of waste disposal includes the separation of materials such as plastics and tins.
Hutson posited that all children need to be familiar with the whole idea of what must be buried, what must be recycled and what other practices we can use in terms of the disposal of waste.
Also present at the affair was the Deputy Mayor Sherrod Duncan who was introduced to the students as “Mr Clean”.
This initiative is expected to be taken to primary schools in all 10 administrative regions.
