World Environment Day - teaching our children to take care of our 'Mother'

26 July 2014
World Environment Day

World Environment Day is an annual event that is aimed at being the biggest and most widely celebrated global day for positive environmental action. World Environment Day provides us an opportunity to reflect on our actions and commitments. It is a day of reckoning - to realise that our 'mother' is ill and we need to take care of her.

Our children did their bit by picking up litter along our fences under the supervision of our staff.

What can you do? The solution lies in 'collective action and responsibility'. 
What each one does every day has a direct impact on our environment. 

  • It begins with small things at home, school or even offices. Switching off unnecessary light/fan switches; closing dripping/running taps, reducing waste (for example, carry your own shopping bag to begin with and stop taking those polythene bags that not just clog up our drains but kill our rivers and streams); 
  • Reusing stuff you just might have thrown away (of course, the first challenge is to even try and avoid buying things that are not really necessary); 
  • Adopt simple principles like zero waste principles both at work and home; 
  • Share available resources with friends and family (e.g., organise car pools to drop and pick-up children from school or to go to offices or simply put – just learn to share, even knowledge); 
  • Adopt good and sustainable practices to conserve resources.