Haiti - Environment : Soon start of the reforestation project through schools
As part of the promotion of environmental citizenship education, the Ministries of the Environment and National Education, inform that the process of seedling planting under the reforestation project through schools will start in April 2019.
Remember that this initiative aims to raise Haitian students' awareness of the need to protect the environment and to ensure their commitment and effective involvement in the country's reforestation activities and also serve as leverage to to mobilize social groups for the defense of the environment.
The two Ministries propose to work on a structuring approach to environmental education in schools taking into account all aspects of the curriculum [ in the new secondary program, reforestation will be considered as a compulsory subjecthttps://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-24627-haiti-environment-towards-compulsory-reforestation-in-schools.html , teacher training and the availability of educational tools support for the medium and long-term implementation of such an initiative.
The two ministries are working together to facilitate the planting of seedlings produced in Plant Propagation Centers https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-25224-haiti-environment-inauguration-of-the-3rd-plant-propagation-center.html , mobilizing all partners for effective involvement of schoolchildren, teachers and school officials of the Republic in reforestation activities. To this end, teams from the Ministry of Environment and National Education, will be touring from 25 to 29 March 2019, in the 10 departments.
