THE Ministry of Communities’ Green Generation Guyana (#3G) Project is making strides as students from several primary schools in and around Georgetown have been sensitised about their environment.

Through the project, students from 10 primary schools engaged in interactive sessions on the importance of waste separation, composting, developing waste into energy and zero waste-zero hunger initiatives.

St. Agnes, St. Ambrose, St. Pius, St. Winifred’s, South Ruimveldt, West Ruimveldt, Tucville, Enterprise and F.E.Pollard Primary were the schools that benefitted from the sessions.
The ministry said the remaining 18 primary schools in the region will be reached in the new school term while the Diamond Secondary School and the Araipaima Primary School in Lethem are next in line.

During the outreaches, fifth and sixth grade classrooms received waste separation bins and several responded to questions and asked many of their own.
In addition, following a Recycler’s Pageant hosted by the ministry, three students from the Graham’s Hall Primary School walked away with trophies while the school was provided with waste bins.

Other activities at the pageant included a creative wear segment where the contestants were allowed to design outfits from biodegradable and non-biodegradable materials found in the environment such as paper, plastics and metals.

Also, at the recently concluded Aliann Pompey Invitational event at the Leonora Synthetic Track of which the Ministry’s 3G Project was a sponsor, a nine-year-old student and a teenager were awarded brand new Apple watches after correctly answering questions on the Green Generation Guyana Project.

Throughout the outreaches, the students were informed about the ministry’s upcoming Regional 3G Camp to be held in August which will see participants learning how to reuse discarded materials to create items of marketable value.

The 3G project falls under the Ministry’s flagship ‘Green Generation Guyana’ and was launched at the Yarrowkabra Primary School on March 21, 2018.