From September 16 to October 19, Belarusian school students took part in “ZOOM. Kids on the Move”, an international environmental campaign. Schoolchildren learned to look after the environment, and prepared their wishes for the UN Climate Summit participants.
ZOOM campaign is ongoing throughout Europe with the support of Climate Alliance. The local “Interakcia” foundation has been its coordinator in Belarus since 2015. Children performed tasks on environmental topics: e.g., they learned how the greenhouse effect is produced and what harm it does to the environment. For each task they got interactive labels (each equivalent to 1 km). Having collected “kilometers”, children could set out for an imaginary journey. At the end of the campaign the kids made “green footprints” of paper and wrote their wishes on them, which will be sent to the 22nd
UN Climate Summit in Marokko. This way, they can remind the experts and politicians of the importance of looking after the climate for the sake of generations to come.
Sergey Leychenko, First Chairman of Polack Raion Executive Committee, noted that “it’s very important that children are already taking specific steps to improve our town”.
The total of 1097 schoolchildren from Polack, Navapolack and Minsk took part in the ZOOM campaign events, they collected 29,717 “green footprints”. The organisers in Belarus are planning to take the campaign to other Belarusian cities and towns as well. Learn more about the campaign in Belarus here.
