Audubon reads about nature to over 300 youths

amanda burgos-acosta

There have been many initiatives to get students and other youths to read. Drop Everything and read was one that had much success but the Audubon has decided to transform the written word into an interactive audiovisual experience for over three hundred primary school children from Belize City.  According to Amanda Burgos Acosta, Audubon’s Program Advocacy Manager, it celebrated International Biodiversity Day with reading and skits all of which had an environmental flavor.

Amanda Burgos Acosta, Program Advocacy Manager

“What Audubon did is we had a reading day and we basically had special guests who we invited to come and read. We had Sir Colville Young, we had the Ambassador from Costa Rica, we also had Miss Sylvaana Udz. They read local stories with at least local characters, local biodiversity. In addition, we had the great feature of a play that local teenagers from high school participated in. It was a combination of art and folklore. We included those local stories like Tata Duende and Ixtabai tying them in nature with the local folklore. If you read those stories a lot of them are in the forest or the Ixtabai protecting her tree. So we tied a lot of that in together. It was basically a big celebration of biodiversity. In addition, we had the final day of our exhibit for the art comepition. We had our two winners; first place Tyra Wade, and for second place in art we had Tryna Suazo. In the photography we had for first place a tie between Jonathon Urbina and Lindbergh Charles Joseph. And for second place we had Stephanie Espat. So those winners basically will get a trip to cockscomb and they’ll get to enjoy Belizean biodiversity.”

International Day of Biodiversity is officially held on May twenty second but to get students involved, the Audubon celebrated it today.