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Spreading Environmental Awareness Among The Youth

Everyone knows that the environment is being disrespected and ruined by many of us. All one has to do is look and observe the situation around him to prove this to be true. This distressing situation may be telling people to go and do something to solve the problem. One must be aware of this growing problem in our society. One of the problems may be everyone’s apathy and lack of information about the situation. The group hopes to remedy this problem by spreading Environmental Awareness to the youth. After all, they do say that the youth is the hope of our nation. It makes sense to say that they could be the hope for our environment, as well.

The group has decided to conduct its action project of spreading environmental awareness among the youth in a high school in Pasay City, Pasay City East High School. The group conducted a lecture about Environmental Awareness among a class of Grade 7 students and even facilitated some activities that hope to increase environmental awareness among the students. 

The lecture included showing several videos to the students that would make them consider about the different problems in the environment. These videos included “MAN” by Steve Cutts and “Going Green” by Thiago S. Aranha. The students were also asked to give their views and opinions about the said videos at the end of the film showing. 

The recitation brought many interesting views about the environment and proposed solutions to save it from the student. It truly   shows that there may still be hope yet if people are only able to know more about the problems of the environment. After that, one of the group members, Hannah Pabalan, gave her own explanation of the videos.

The short lecture was followed shortly by some activities that the students were asked to do. Some were assigned to write essays about the environment and some solutions that they think can solve the problems about it, others made posters and slogan and while others yet again were asked to make some presentations such as a rap and a rendition of the song “Anak ng Pasig”.

The students all showed their talent in their different activities and everyone had fun while doing all of it as well. Three winners each were chosen for the essay writing, slogan, and poster making and they were all awarded with prizes. Several students were also asked to present their work in class and everyone was able to evaluate it. 

The event ended in a high note with everyone being able to gain something from it whether it is new knowledge about the environment or new friends. Everyone must remember that small changes can become part of a larger change. Improvement starts with the youth so we should start by educating them to appreciate the environment, one of God’s greatest gifts to humanity.

Here are the outputs of the students:

This action project was conducted by LIA-COM 28 students of De La Salle University-Manila namely:

Maria Sofia Onte

Hannah Pabalan

Andre Ethan Chua

Christine Joy Pascual

Marcelyn Arvie Relucio

Eliz Ang

Angela Delmoro

Jenny Mendizabal

Gabrielle Pascual

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Poster made by me.

SCIENVB: Environmental Biology Project

The Gazebo at Hidden Valley Springs 

The group proposes to establish “The Gazebo”. The plot was first covered with fallen leaves and moss, and the area for the pond wasn’t seen. If renovated, we plan to clean the are and then construct a walkway bridge over a pond towards the mini gazebo. The pond will have varieties of fish. The walkway bridge also serves as a place for tourists who would like to feed and watch the fish. There will also be simple placards that would contain background or trivia about the kinds of fish. The Gazebo will serve as a simple hang-out place, also inside it is a small store that sells food for the fish; intended to be a serene place overseeing the surrounds of nature.

With the establishment of this project, there is more to explore and experience for the tourists. After the long stroll and hike, tourists would desire to rest while still having a feel of the rainforest. Also, it gives a twist to see varieties of fish on a mountain. We wanted to complete nature experience by catering a pond. This way, human-fish interaction will be observed. The struggles before building these are the cutting  of the plants and trees and the maintenance in keeping the pond clean. Since much space is needed to construct the Gazebo, the plants and trees at the middle will be forced to be cut. Keeping the fish from being smothered by the fallen leaves will also be a challenge in maintaining the project, but necessary and basic solutions can be easily made. The Gazebo will totally attract tourists thus increase ecotourism values of the resort. Not only that it caters environmental interaction and exposure, but also educates the visitors. With this, The Gazebo is an effective and helpful factor in promoting Hidden Valley Resorts and develop the whole place as well.