Environmental awareness may not be something we think about too often in the city - but a group of UB students are visiting with primary school children across the city- educating the youngsters about their environment.
One of their main goals is to get the children involved in creating a healthier environment in their own school and home settings. Today 7news caught up with the group in a Standard 3 class at Grace Primary.
Freddy Cantillano, UB Student
"This is a project that was initiated by our teacher Dr. Perez. We are going though as I said an environmental cause and we were given the choices among many and we choose to come to the schools because it is here that education starts, they also says that it starts at home - but I think it's here that children will be exposed to a lot of different things and garbage would be one of them and of course our message this morning is that we want them to learn what are national resources and what we can do with them; how can we protect them and how can we preserve them."
"Also we wanted to tell them that we can also recycle; not everything is garbage; there are three different products which is plastic, paper and metal. Here obviously we are exposed to two of them paper and plastic. The children of the schools that we went to already and this is our third school, we have one more to go to. We also tell them that everything is not lost, we can do a lot. Here as I said we need to tell them that we need to change this atmosphere, we need to change this culture because a lot of people like to say; we go to Chetumal for instance and nobody is clean or as we go over there no one want to throw any garbage. We want to do the same for Belize; we want to keep our city beautiful and clean."
So far the group has visited Holy Redeemer, Grace Primary and Wesley primary schools. On Monday they move on to Ebenezer Methodist School.
