SCHOOLS PLANT PROJECT TAKES ROOT

A PROJECT aimed at boosting environmental awareness among students has taken root.

“Let’s Grow Together,” piloted by Member for Parliament Caroni East Dr. Rishad Seecheran, has won acclaim from the school community and others.

The project is designed to grow more plants as a means of sustainable development and of curbing the harmful impact of climate change.

Dr. Seecheran has so far visited six schools in the Caroni East electoral constituency and distributed 660 chive and 660 celery plants.

Seven other schools are to benefit from the venture.

The MP is spearheading the project as a tangible means of safeguarding the ecosystem.

He said it is one measure of preserving farming communities, rainforests, landscapes, and soil quality.

Further, the goal is “averting the perennial misery of floods and overall environmental degradation.”

Dr. Seecheran stated that the project is “a conscious and substantive means of educating tomorrow’s leaders about the urgent crisis of climate change.”

He noted the campaign embodies the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

He said: “Students are being taught how our wonderful green spaces, agricultural districts, vital waterways, and other areas of our habitat are at serious risk as a result of the ravages of climate change.”

Students are being advised of the importance of generating new forms of energy, utilising wind turbines, solar panels, and other environmentally safe sources.

He said the response to the campaign is “overwhelmingly positive” and he expects it to become “a model for a national response to our urgent environmental crisis.”