Summer Camp „Young people from Ungheni for a clean environment” (Ungheni, Moldova)

The project Partner, Ungheni City Hall joins the online communication campaign – Europe Day 2020 and presents the Ecological Summer Camp „Young people from Ungheni for a clean environment”, a success story within the project „Waste Free Rivers for a Clean Black Sea”.

Between July 8th-12th, 2019, in the Multifunctional Cultural Center „Regina Maria” in Berești neighborhood of Ungheni, the ecological summer camp „Young people from Ungheni for a clean environment” was organized, and it was attended by 30 students and young people of the age between 14 – 20 years old from Ungheni City and the neighboring rural localities: Pîrlița, Sculeni, Valea Mare, Mănoilești, Zagarancea, and Semeni villages.

The participants of the summer camp learned about the problems related to the pollution of Black Sea and the Prut River, the causes of water pollution and the actions that every citizen could take to face the current environmental challenges, they learned about the 3R principle of waste collection and the integrated waste management system in Ungheni. There they learned how to develop a plan of environmental activities, how to properly plan the resources for the implementation of the plan and how to organize the campaign to promote ecological messages for environmental protection. They interacted directly with decision makers from Ungheni municipality and district, thus finding out more about the existing ecological problems in the locality and they paid a visit to the Sorting and Compaction Station from ME „Ave – Ungheni”, they visited the Prut river and „Steluța” kindergarten, which shared the good practices of organizing environmental activities. At the same time, the participants created in the master-classes hand-made objects from recyclable materials (plastic, paper, textiles, etc.) and participated in sanitation actions. The children actively rested and had a great time.

This activity was part of the Environmental Education Program for schools in Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Romania and it aimed to familiarize students and young people with river and marine waste problems and to educate correct ecological behavior.

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