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Promoting environmental awareness among children and young people

Together with the Environmental Education Center at the National University of Mongolia, HSS Mongolia carried out a campaign to raise awareness among children and young people about the environment and environmentally relevant laws. As part of this project, five thousand students from families in subsistence-level circumstances were selected and involved in a fee-based environmental awareness program from April to October 2022, the costs of which were borne by HSS.

As part of the program, the pupils had the opportunity to learn more about the role of our environment for human existence as well as the consequences of environmental destruction and its legal consequences through the learning stations 'Seed journey', 'Animals in our museum', 'Greenhouse', 'Following the traces of invisibility' and 'Let me live!'. The latter station was led by the environmental police.

 

The program is intended to give children and young people an opportunity to better understand our environment and to encourage them to treat it with care and love.

Felix Glenk - Representative of the Hanns-Seidel-Foundation in Mongolia:

"Children are our future. In this sense, it is of great importance to explain to them the relevance of environmental protection and to draw their attention to the prevention of illegal activities. From 2022, Hanns-Seidel-Foundation Mongolia will focus on improving the implementation of environmental law in addition to the traditional legal area. With the Environmental Education Center, it is working on the education of children and young people." 

Dr. Sunjidmaa.R - Senior Expert, Environmental Education Center:

"I would like to thank the Hanns Seidel Foundation and other donor organizations for their cooperation," she emphasized. Children had great opportunities to experience something completely new and hopefully see our environment with different, more caring eyes from now on. Children gave us extremely positive feedback. To name a few examples of reactions from our visitors: 

 

"How beautiful our environment is!"

"I want to learn more at the environmental education center."

"Maybe I will become an ecologist!"

"Wonderful, highly interesting, very beautiful, very exciting, thrilling!"

"I hope that as many children as possible will visit the center."

"Thank you very much for this opportunity!"

Ms. Sunjidmaa considers the outcome of the program to be very effective. She believes that the sponsors have made a valuable contribution through the environmental education program for children and young people. Without this support, the program would not have been possible on this scale. Thanks to this support, we were also able to reach pupils from distant residential areas and make them aware of the beauty and importance of nature. 

Photo gallery of the event (please click on the photo below to view)