Combating Climate Change
A summer workshop for children 19th - 23rd April 2010

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Introduction

As part of our endeavors in environmental education, Sackhumvit Trust organized a workshop for students at Dream School Foundation’s (DSF) Yeshwantpur and R.T. Nagar centres to learn about ecological issues associated with the urbanization of Bangalore. The workshop was an engaging and unique experience for DSF’s students, most of whom attend government schools which are unable to dedicate sufficient time and resources for teaching environmental studies as part of their school syllabus.

With rising April temperatures in the city and summer vacations having just begun, a group of 21 children representing many schools in Bangalore and coming from many neighbourhoods in South Bangalore actively participated in a five day summer workshop organized by the Environment Support Group (ESG) at the ESG office in Bangalore to understand the complex issues of Climate Change and global warming and learn how to combat the same.

On June 5, World Environment Day, ESG organized a half day workshop on the Urban Environment for the children of Living Hope Boys Home. Fifty children (in the age group of 4-14 years) participated enthusiastically. For a detailed account of the workshop, read on...

From 21st to 25th April 2008, the Environment Support Group team spent time with twenty young minds, helping them to explore, notice, discover, understand, listen, see and feel the myriad nuances of the environment enveloping their lives. To do so experiential learning techniques, which comprised of activities, field visits, film clippings, discussions and so on, were used.