This Academy was held on sunny Wednesday, February 5th at Government School, Bigrabag, India. where 37 new Climate Justice Ambassadors attended. Morning Presentation was made by Plant-for-the-Planet board member and project coordinator, Dharmendra Kapri. Right after the presentation, we played the game called “Seed / Plant”, so that the children get ready and prepared for the course of the day. Prepared and equipped with our Plant-for-the-Planet shirt, we distributed the children in 5 teams to play the World Game. Here, the children paid close attention during the explanation and were very participative even in the rhetorical training session.

Therefore, we were able to finish this aspect of the Academy quite quickly and were able to head off to lunch together. Here, we talked about many interesting things regarding Plant-for-the-Planet, as well as the upcoming Climate Justice Ambassadors engagement in their schools.

We returned from lunch and the children were even more excited than before, some of them already excited about the cause, some telling of trees they had already planted and others wanting to plant that day.

We started Project-Creations, and in the process, as much as the kids were committed to the project, keeping everyone focused sometimes was a real challenge, but we were able to keep everyone interested thanks to the help of all the volunteers that were present.

After that I also conducted a session on Tunza Eco-generation and promoted our TEG platform among the students and gave them TEG leaflets, pencils, post-its etc. and reminded them to look at the TEG website to see the wonderful work carried by all of us. 

After that we planted 10 trees on the school ground. We separated into groups of 6 to 7 children, together with the representatives of the School. All the preparatory work was already done by the Eco club in charge before the day of planting.

The help of the school staff was indispensable for the development of this Academy, this helped us and promoted the good monitoring of activities with the children. So, after we finished the projects, we reinforced the rhetorical practices, showing them how to articulate more clear, how to get the attention of the people present and supported the explanation of their project, and without delay, we started to present the projects. We had projects related to recycling, rainwater harvesting and vegetable gardens. Finally, everyone got their Climate Justice Ambassador certificate and we took a last group photo to remember this productive day!