In July 2017, we engaged the Students and Staff of Chrisade Secondary School, Ilesha, Osun State. The project started with a reception given to us by the Founder of the College which allowed us to further express our concerns on Climate Change using visible illustrations.We spent quality time educating the students on Climate change and the roles trees could play in combating the evil, the entire school participated in the exercise.
In May 2017, we had a trip in collaboration with ISEC NIGERIA to BIBO OLUWA SECONDARY SCHOOL ILESHA, OSUN STATE where approximately 800 leaders and environmental soldiers were trained after which they were led to tree planting exercise within the school farm and Environment.
We engaged approximately 400 Students of KINGDOM HERITAGE MODEL SCHOOL, ILE-IFE in exciting hours of climate education. The students were taught basic facts about the environment including the rate of deforestation in the country, the importance of recycling and environmental conservation, the growing crisis of climate change, and the role that everyone can play in helping to solve ecological problems at local, national and global levels. After the lessons, staff and students participated in tree planting exercises and all vowed to take the message of climate action back to their communities.
To commemorate 2019 World Environment Day, the premier Inter School Tree planting competition moved to Community Government Middle School, Ota-Efun Osogbo, Osun State Nigeria where students were shown the concept behind today’s event by imparting into them the knowledge on Air pollution and climate change after which they were led into Tree planting being part of the measures to combat the aforementioned ecological issues, it was such a great moment to see the staff and students jubilating after the event.
Special thanks to Professor Chukwumerije Okereke, University of Reading and Coordinating Lead Author IPCC WgIII AR6 who sponsored the move.
Humans have established communities and flourished around sources of clean, drinkable water since the beginning of time; It is vital to our survival. British poet W. H. Auden once noted, “Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” Yet while we all know water is crucial for life, we trash it anyway.
Water pollution is the cause of a long chain of illnesses. Infectious diseases can easily be spread through contaminated water. Some of these water-borne diseases are Typhoid, Cholera, Paratyphoid Fever, Dysentery, Jaundice, Amoebiasis and Malaria, to least a very few.
The health consequences alone of water pollution is quite remarkable, and is evident all around the globe so that last year alone, deaths from dirty water and related diseases is 3,393,156.
The problem of unclean water, to the extent of being unsafe, is more prevalent in developing countries, and is manifest almost everywhere in Nigeria.
In Abuja, the capital city, as a result of Increased human activities, the accidental and intentional dumping of pollutants, the Jabi lake, the only water body available to fun-seeking citizens with the metropolis is witnessing more than a fair share of water pollution; the fringes of the lake is unsightly, having been littered dense with all types of garbage, mostly plastic soft drink containers. Plastic pollution threatens food safety and quality, human health, coastal tourism, and contributes to climate change.
Without intervention, the challenges of pollution on the Jabi Lake will only increase as the demand for freshwater and eco goods and services also increase for communities whose source of livelihood is from the lake.
One of the most effective ways to stand up for our waters is to act, and speak out, in support of the Clean Water Rule. In compliance, on Saturday, the 6th of February, 2021, the Society for Planet and Prosperity (SPP), a Non-Governmental Organisation registered in Nigeria, visited the Jabi lake with volunteers and well-wishers to conduct a cleaning exercise.
At the end of the event which received tremendous support from members of the fishing community, the organisation was able to remove more than forty sack-full of waste from the water body, the fringes of the lake and its surroundings.