group photo with participants

Tunza-eco generation with support of Shanti  Ama samuha organized a ?Women Awareness  Program on Climate Change and Solid Waste Management ? in Lanku on Wednesday,July 9, 2014 . The program was carried out in the Laxminarayan Mandir Hall,Lanku,  Chitwan. The major objective of the program was women awareness and their role in climate change and solid waste management

 Guests of the program

• Assistant Professor Dr. Hom Bahadur Basnet, Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science, Rampur
•  Women Leader and Social Activist Mina Kharel
• Regional Ambassador of Nepal from Tunza –Eco generation Smriti Limbu
•  Coordinator of Nepalese Youth Action for Climate Change- Rampur, Kiran Bhusal
•  Treasurer of Youth Eco Network, Prakteek kunwar

 Participants of the program

• Local women and members of Shanti Ama Samuha.

Presenter of program

• Bindu  Pokheral
• Deepti  Karki  
• Ishwora Dhungana and
• Myself

The program went for 3 hours under three different sessions:

1st session: This session was introductory and formal. Guests had speech on importance of women in environment conservation.

guest giving speech 

2nd session: This session included, introduction to climate change its causes and effect and finally the role of women in mitigating the effects of climate change. Also, reliable videos on climate climate change and women were presented. The presentation was given by Bindu  Pokhrel and Ishwora Dhungana.

 Apart from Climate Change, I and Deepti  Karki , presented on introduction to solid waste, types of solid waste, its negative impacts on human health, agricultural land and environment and mainly the role of women in its management and control of solid waste. Here also, we presented the videos on reuse of plastic bottle.

speech on solid waste

3rd session: The last or third part of the program was  mass green quiz which was so interesting as well as entertaining. The main objective of quiz was to entertain and interact with the participants which was handled by Deepti  Karki .

Finally, the prize was distributed to the winners, which was eco friendly paper pencil from tunza eco -generation.  At last, the token of love (ecofriendly pen and diary) was given to the Shanti  Ama Samuha  by Ambassador of tunza eco generation (Ishwora  Dhungana) .

Views of the participants

We got many positive feedbacks from the participants. They said that,? it was the good opportunity for us to participate in such knowledgeable and interesting program. We learnt more about climate change and also about solid waste management ?. And they also promised that they won?t burn plastics from now, conserve plants and maintain greenery and also will adopt reduce, reuse and recycle technique in their daily life. They also expect more such environment related program from tunza-ecogeneration and other environment organizations.