EcoHeroes Initiative.
The EcoHeroes Initiative (formerly Environmental Education Programme) educates and empowers students in secondary schools across Africa to identify environmental challenges and needs in their communities, and develop solutions to the challenges by applying the knowledge they have acquired from science and arts courses in school. The students work in groups with advisors with relevant experience from across the globe, thus enabling the students acquire new knowledge and skills through peer learning and mentorship. The programme seeks to empower secondary school students with actions competences which will enable them to develop long term commitment to sustainability for everyday life, career engagement or voluntary service as environmentalists or influencers for the environment.
EcoHeroes Initiative engages secondary school students in African countries to:
Identify
identify environmental challenges and needs covering resilient communities, low-carbon economies, healthy ecosystems, nature conservation among other themes of environmental sustainability in their local communities
Implement
conceptualise, develop, and implement solutions ideas to the challenges and needs through critical thinking and application of previous-acquired knowledge from school subjects
Learn
acquire new knowledge on environmental sustainability through hands-on implementation of their environmental solutions with grant (fund), mentorship by international experts, webinars for peer learning from their team members and other participating student teams in other African countries
Share
share knowledge locally and internationally for programme communication, extension, and replication
