Joel Omino School gets Green House from Israeli for its ESD Project.
Joel Omino Secondary School Principal Richard Nyayal{L} pose for a group photo with Israeli Citizens and other guests who visited the school today so as to see the progress of ESD project.The Israeli Government has given the school a green House kit so as to help in enhancing the ESD project which the school is its pioneer in Kenya-Photo By Dickson Odhiambo.
By Dickson Odhiambo.
February 22, 2018.
Joel Omino School gets Green House
from Israeli for its ESD Project.
A SCHOOL in
Kisumu County has been given a green house to help in enhancing the issues of
the Education for Sustainable Development {ESD} which it pioneered.
Joel Omino
Secondary school in Kisumu Central Sub-County has received the Green House kit
worth shs 360,000 from the Israeli Government so as to help in continuing with
the Education for Sustainable Development Project that was launched in the
school in july 2013.
Speaking to
press at the school during the official handover of the green house project on
Thursday, Joel Omino Secondary school Principal Richard Nyayal said they will
use the facility to plant vegetable and tomatoes.
Nyayal says
the facility will also be used to educate the students and locals on the issue
of Education for Sustainable Development which can help them even at home.
He says a
team of Israeli from Boston has visited the school so as to witness the
progress on the ESD since its launch in the year 2013.
The team has
been very happy so far with the progress the ESD has made so far in various areas.
Nyayal says
so far the school is doing extremely well on ESD in areas like establishment of
food tower, Arboretum, Bio Sand water Filter and Bakery within the school.
Nyayal says
the ESD project which was introduced by the Israeli Government after the school’s
then Principal James Otieno was trained
in Israel and came back to implement it in the school in the year 2013.
Nyayal has
advised both students and parents to fully embrace the ESD Project concept so
as to help them greatly at home.
Education
for Sustainable Development {ESD} project was launched in Kenya in the year
2013 with Joel Omino Secondary in Kisumu becoming the first school in the
country so as to pioneer the project.
Since
then,
the school has fully embraced the concept of Education for Sustainable
Development to enable the students be well equipped with knowledge in
Citizenship,
development and democracy.
The school also strives to drive the concept of ESD to its students so as to embrace environmental conservation, religious and Cultural Values as well as conflict resolution.
The ESD concept is strongly reinforced by five pillars of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Refuse and Repair {the Five Rs}.
“These philosophies have been in cooperated into the regular curriculum thus making our school to be the first Education for Sustainable Development in Kenya here,” the School’s Principal says.
The school also strives to drive the concept of ESD to its students so as to embrace environmental conservation, religious and Cultural Values as well as conflict resolution.
The ESD concept is strongly reinforced by five pillars of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Refuse and Repair {the Five Rs}.
“These philosophies have been in cooperated into the regular curriculum thus making our school to be the first Education for Sustainable Development in Kenya here,” the School’s Principal says.
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