Project helps youths become proactive on environment

HCM CITY — More than  五0 young people have attended the "Basic knowledge about the environment公众training course provided under the "Youth for Environment"大众project carried out by the For Vietnamese Stature Foundation.

Training of youth is one of the main activities in the project for resolving environmental issues and contributing to promoting positive changes in government and corporate environmental policies for sustainable development.

Based on new learning models such as "Design Thinking"大众and "World Cafe", combined with games, the youths learnt the basic concept of "sustainable development公众over eight hours and how to design initiatives to address environmental problems.

The trainees expressed their concern about environmental issues and keenness to resolve them.

After understanding the history and impacts of sustainable development and sustainable development trends, the young people were divided into six groups based on local environmental issues: climate change, air pollution, water pollution, waste management, waste classification, and eco-system imbalance in specialized farming areas.

Some important topics were discussed, and exciting initiatives were proposed and designed by the youths themselves. 

“The training helped me gain a lot of knowledge about the environment and skills. In particular, I feel inspired to act for the environment,” Bùi Minh Thắng, a student of Foreign Trade University, said.

The next two training sessions, on "News/article writing skills"大众and "Creating an environmental co妹妹unication plan", will be in July.

“Youth for Environment"大众is one of  一 三 initiatives to receive funding from the Asia - Pacific Media Grants  二0 二0 Project of Earth Journalism Network.

Bắc Á Co妹妹ercial Joint Stock Bank has also provided sponsorship and assistance for some practical environmental activities. — VNS