CHILDREN ON ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION

With the topic "Children on Environment Protection”, Advocacy Training and Resource Center -ATRC, held a cycle of lectures in several municipalities in Kosovo such are: Kosovo Polje, Dragash, Novobërda, Mitrovica, Leposavic, Podujeva and Gjilan. Lectures have been held with the pupils of the fifth grade of some primary schools from abovementioned municipalities.

These lectures have been presented by environmental local experts who focused mainly on the pollution of main nature components, pollution resources and opportunities that these pupils can contribute and prevent their environment. During these lectures, pupils expressed their concerns due to non adequate attention towards environment in society and their interests and opportunities to protect it.

Leart Tytyri, pupil from the fifth grade in Elementary School "ULINA" from Kosava village in Dragash Municipality, is concerned with the delay of snow in his village. Although so new age, Leart has realized that the effects of global warming as a serious threat to the environment, have also affected his village. "Snow in my village has been delayed. Before global warming, snow fell much earlier in m village ".

The Leart’s peer, Blerta Ahmeti who follows the fifth grade in Primary School "ASDRENI" to Llabjan,  Municipality of Novo Brdo, is concerned for her cousin who lives in Obilic. “She gets sick very often due to the polluted environment in Obiliq, meantime I get sick very rarely because the air in my village is much clean than in Obiliqi” - says Blerta.

The next cycle of lectures for increasing children awareness towards environmental protection, will continue in the other twenty-three municipalities, in the next semester (2010), which is supported by the American Embassy in Pristina.