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a fountain for your school

Short description of the action

Today having a fountain in every school means saving money, less plastic pollution, more safety on water quality, less weight to carry to school. The school is carrying on a project through which the young people of each class will monitor for a period the daily consumption of plastic bottles of water used in their class. A monitoring and survey tool will have to be prepared to be administered and made to be filled in by the students with their name and age. how much he drinks and how much he spends on drinking per day.

The iam of this project is to make studentsunderstand: • how much it costs and how polluting it is to drink water in plastic bottles; to raise awareness and make students aware of consuming water from the tap. • to reduce the excessive amount of plastic to be disposed of • to learn how to exercise an active and eco-sustainable citizenship A brochure will have to be developed to be distributed in the school, which serves to make children and their families aware of drinking from the tap, which reports in summary of all the data collected by the students in the table. A fountain will have to be placed inside the school, which will allow water to be drunk by spending less and reducing plastic waste. The project is conducted in collaboration with AMAP spa. company that manages drinking and waste water in the province of Palermo.

Name of organisation
FARE AMBIENTE SICILIA MOVIMENTO ECOLOGISTA EUROPEO
Type of organisation
Non-governmental organisation
Type of action proposed
Citizen engagement, citizens-science, youth-led initiatives, communities of practice, ocean and water literacy, outreach, awareness raising and participatory approaches
The action contributes to the following objective or enabler
Prevent and eliminate pollution of our ocean, seas and waters
Public mobilisation and engagement
List of Partners

AMAP SPA PALERMO, SCUOLE DI SECONDO GRADO

Start date of the action
End date of the action
Budget allocated for the action
120000
Basin coverage
Mediterranean Sea
Website link
Email
dalima1865@gmail.com
Country
Italy