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School children participate in Environmental Conservation Awareness program

| | Dec 14, 2014, at 06:32 am
Kolkata, Dec 13 (IBNS) The American Center, Kolkata ,in association with SHER, hosted an Environmental Conservation Awareness program among the school children on Friday.

As part of this program an innovative event "Art-for-Conservation" was organised at American Center.

Inaugurating the event, the American Center Deputy Director Greg Pardo said, “It is important that we continue to work together to educate ourselves about the importance of protecting the environment and also act.  It is even more important that we include our youth in these efforts, because it is for their future and for generations to come that we must heed the call to protect our environment.”

14 city schools produced  posters on the theme "Conserving Forests & wildlife is our answer to climate change".

Actor and painter Anindita Bose, theatre actor and Odissi dancer Sanchari Chakroborty, Nature photographer and travel writer Partha P. Ghosh, and educationist and environmental campaigner  Baijayanti Das were present there to judge the art-works.

Artist Sanatan Dinda handed the  award to The Future Foundation School for the best poster.

A wildlife conservation poster "Save the Mongoose" was also released by Dinda in presence of of Ujjal Bhattacharya(IFS) Chief, Wild Life Warden and PCCf Wildlife , and Ms Suchandra Kundu,Founder Member,SHER.

During her presentation about the program, Suchandra Kundu, Founder Member, SHER said, “It is through the children that SHER wants to communicate to the elders that they are living on a planet borrowed from their future generations. SHER’s art-for-conservation event is a unique way to promote the mission to support environmental conservation work.”                                                                    

(Image by   Pratik Dey Chowdhury/IBNS)
 

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