LAWMA Academy, the educational arm of Lagos Waste Management
Authority, will organise a four-week summer school for children aged 8 –
13, from 1st August to 26th August, at its headquarters, Ijora-Olopa,
on the tenets of effective waste management.
It
is the second edition of the programme which debuted last year, aimed
at educating pupils on effective waste management and environmental
best practice.
The Managing Director/CEO of
LAWMA, Mr. Ibrahim Odumboni, said the summer school was put together to
groom the younger generation on the need to imbibe a positive mindset
and outlook on environmental issues, during the holiday period.
He
said, “The Summer School program is designed to educate children from a
tender age on the concept of waste and environmental management, to
raise ambassadors for a cleaner and healthier environment, with seasoned
facilitators in a conducive learning environment. This will help to
groom children as responsible environmental advocates while providing
other fun-filled activities to aid the learning process”.
Odumboni
urged parents and guardians to use the opportunity presented by the
long vacation in schools to enroll their children and wards for
participation in the summer school, adding that children who could not
participate physically, could connect online.
According
to the Team Lead of the Academy, Mrs. Elizabeth Ademola, the summer
school program was structured to simplify the concepts of waste and
environmental management to children, to ensure that every child had
sufficient and holistic knowledge of issues bordering on environmental
sustainability.
“Being an educative/social
forum, we have designed various activities such as, classroom lessons,
quiz competitions, essay competitions, debates, indoor and outdoor
games, impromptu speeches, excursions, video games, Culinary classes,
Field trips and Excursions, researches and experiments on waste
management, career talks and lots more”, she stressed.
She further informed that registration for the free summer school programme would end on Friday, 29th July, 2022.
The
LAWMA educational arm was recently awarded as, “The best in the
promotion of environmental education to youths and students in the
state”, at the 3rd edition of Lagos Waste Forum Sustainability Award,
organised by Statewide Waste and Environmental Education Programme,
SWEEP Foundation, at the University of Lagos, Akoka, Yaba.
Folashade Kadiri (Mrs.)
Director, Public Affairs