Barbara James (chaperon) [participants:Holly Kemish , William Weldon]
*Group name
The Long Eaton School ECO Committee
*Country/Region
England - Derbyshire
*Type of Group
Communit, School (Environment Committee)
*Number of total members of your group/project
40 persons
*Number of regular participants in activities
35 persons
*Characteristic of members
Our members are children from our school aged between 11 and 18 years and also memebers of the community and local council and the ECO School Organisor in Derbyshire. We carry out litter picks in our school and our local community, and work towards making our environemnt healthier and more pleasant for everyone.
*Theme(s) of your group/project
*Others
*Missions and activities of your group/project
We have recently carried out a sponsored swim to build a deep bore well in Mali. West Africa.we raised £1,400 by doing a sponsored swim - we gave the money to WaterAid and Rotary International to buidl the well. We have carried out tree planting, we have garding club where we grow vegatables.
*Characteristics of the group/project activities
We have just collect a large container full of books and sent them to Tanzania as part of the Tanzania Book Project
with Nottingham University Students Union.
*Most importnat way of thinking of your group/project for environment
After we had been to the UNICC our two students who had attende have told everyone in our locality and to the press and TV all about the tripp and how we all have to work together to protect the environment.
*Major publications and articles
We have been on TV and Holly kemish - girl that attende conference has been nominated for the LIONS International
Ambassador for Youth in our region.
*What kind of group/project do you want to exchange for imformation and experience with?
We are just moving into a brand new school so we will be looking at working on our canal to clean up the area and protect the water creatures.
*Short message for exchange with other group/project
We all need to work together and make our voice heard, together we are strong and can make a difference, it is important that everyone helps to protect our world.
*Impression of Children's World Summit for the Environment 2005 Aichi
the world summitt was excellent - a mileestone in the development of the two young people that attended. it was wonderful having His Highness Prince Akishino and his family take part in the summitt. William, the boy I brought to the summitt, made a Samurai Warrior from recycled materials, he brought this home to England and then we took it around to other schools and to our sponsors to tell them all baout our trip. Holly and William made a Diary and we presented a copy to our sponsors.
*Others
Since our return we are moving into a brand new school 27 February, and we have told the builders that we want things that are environmental friendly such as recycled seating benches for outside made from recycled plastic. we will be harvesting our rainwater to use for flushing the toilets. we have planted lots of trees and we are going to build a new garden. We have been taking part in the Climate change programme Wathing for Spring with planting Red Admiral Tulips The world Summitt has encouraged us all to work much harder to protect the environment and make this world a much better place for everyone.
*Contact person
Mrs Barbara James
*Contact Address
The Long Eaton School, Thoresby Road, Long Eaton, Nottingham - Derbyshire - England
barbara.l.james@btinternet.com
*URL of Web site of your group/project
http://www.longeaton.derbyshire.sch.uk
