Crooked Tree celebrates Earth Day
Earth Day activities kicked off yesterday with an exhibition at the Bliss Institute organized by the Belize Audubon Society. Today the children of Crooked Tree and neighboring villages celebrated Earth Day their own way. News Five was there.
Patricia Crawford
“We celebrate Earth Day because it is like an example to children to show them the right example, to do no more deforestation in the country of Belize.”
Dacia Tillett, School Principal
“The first thing that we did: I had the children do a research on some of the things that are affecting us today. For example deforestation. And then I made them find out what is deforestation and how could we help to conserve our environment. And after that we decided that we should do either a song, a poetry or a skit about deforestation. They decided that they wanted a song. I got my papers together and I told them that I will try to put the ideas into a song.”
Constancio Perez, School Principal
“What we did was to get information from Mr. Tillett about visiting Crooked Tree on Earth Day. And he asked us if we could prepare a skit to present here today along with other schools. And between me and my assistant we prepared the children for the skit.
The skit that we will be doing is based on saving the environment -saving the waters, the forest, the trees, birds everything.”
Minister of Communications and area representative, Maxwell Samuels reminded parents to take care of Planet Earth because their children will inherit it.
Maxwell Samuels, Minister of Communications
“We can go on a development path that is characterized by an extravagant of the Earth’s resources: water, forest, land, wildlife and so on. What quality of life will the children inherit if we follow such a path? We can also take the position that the Earth’s resources are to be fully protected and conserved and that their use should be severely restricted.”
Hyacinth Latchman for News Five.
As part of the activities to celebrate Earth Day in Crooked Tree there was a nature walk through the village and a student clean-up campaign through the villages.
