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Go Green Program is a sustainable project of the Department of Education which plays a vital role to improve lifelong outcomes for children in communities most impacted by environmental harm by advancing environmental health, safety, and sustainability at school. It is one of the programs being implemented nationwide which aims to develop awareness about minimizing wastes, reusing of materials like plastic bottles, and used tires for gardening and value vegetables, medicinal plants, fruit bearing trees and native plants.
Going green” means to pursue knowledge and practices that can lead to more environmentally friendly and ecologically responsible decisions and lifestyles, which can help protect the environment and sustain its natural resources for current and future generations.
Fourth Estate Elementary School belongs to an urban area, but having this Go Green Program is not impossible. Different ways were implemented just to have this program achieved sustainability. This program doesn’t solely value medicinal and edible plants but also shows on how everyone should know how to care for the environment especially the school surroundings to make the place better to the eyes and minds of everyone especially to our young ones and motivate them to apply it at home and to the community where they belong.
One of the objectives of this program is to ensure cleanliness of the school surroundings. Officers and members of Eco-savers, teaching and non-teaching staff, and the learners involve themselves in cleaning program. Learners have made themselves realize that they are in school not just to study but also to let them be part of helping the place to be safe from diseases caused by an untidy environment. One of the ways to sustain this program is through hydroponics way of planting where water solution and coconut husk are being used instead of soil.