Group launches environmental sustainable programme in schools

‘Clean Tomorrow Today’ is a school-based approach to environmental sustainability and one of the cardinal projects of the ESCORPS under the Mass Action for Environmental Sustainability, Sanitation and Hygiene (MAESSAH), the  Corps Coordinant- General, Emenike N. Eme, had said.Eme, who noted this during the first stakeholder’s forum on Environmental Ethics, saying the project was an […]

‘Clean Tomorrow Today’ is a school-based approach to environmental sustainability and one of the cardinal projects of the ESCORPS under the Mass Action for Environmental Sustainability, Sanitation and Hygiene (MAESSAH), the  Corps Coordinant- General, Emenike N. Eme, had said.
Eme, who noted this during the first stakeholder’s forum on Environmental Ethics, saying the project was an attempt to provide useful information and knowledge of present and future environmental challenges, as well as the technical know- how on how to confidently and adequately address them.
“’Clean Tomorrow Today’ is to impact knowledge on students and then use the students to impact on the host communities,” he added.
He said that the project highlights the role of humans and their actions on the environment, urging people to be of  good behaviour and comply with established environmental principles and regulations.
In order to achieve its purpose, Environmental Ethics and Safety Marshals were deployed to schools to carry out activities ranging from Environmental Ethics and Safety Education/ Enlightenment, Surveillance, Enforcement, Environmental Regulations Compliance Cultivation, among others.
Eme said that the project was kicked off in 80 schools in the federal capital territory.
He added that the programme will also establish Renewable Energy Laboratory in the schools involved which they intend to achieve through a Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement.
He said: “The renewable energy laboratory projects are money spinning projects so it is an honour for such to be sighted in any school. We have partners outside the country that are coming in with their funds to invest in the establishment of laboratories which are going to produced items to be used in homes, not only in Nigeria but outside Nigeria, so the students will end up producing handiworks that will be exported to other countries.”