Educating
Title:towards a sustainable future
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Since 2000, the Swarovski Waterschool has educated children and communities on sustainable water use, helping to safeguard the availability of clean water and support the health and wellbeing of people and the planet. In India, this program is especially crucial as the country is experiencing a water crisis due to changing weather patterns, repeated droughts, and an over-extraction of groundwater.
To help solve this water crisis and to reach out to more students, Swarovski Waterschool and its implementing partner WWF India have teamed up with Mission Paani, a nationwide initiative focused on protecting India’s water resources and changing attitudes and behaviours to improve the efficiency of water use. Swarovski Waterschool is providing its local Waterschool curriculum to Mission Paani to be shared in thousands of schools across India to educate children about their relationship with the environment, specifically water, and how human behaviours have both negative and positive impacts on the natural world. By encouraging students to understand the water-related problems facing environments like wetlands and rivers, and how this effects their communities, they can begin to adopt sustainable habits that could become the norm for future generations.
“We need to make people and children understand that water is a precious element.”
– Ravi Singh, Secretary General and CEO of WWF India
To help solve this water crisis and to reach out to more students, Swarovski Waterschool and its implementing partner WWF India have teamed up with Mission Paani, a nationwide initiative focused on protecting India’s water resources and changing attitudes and behaviours to improve the efficiency of water use. Swarovski Waterschool is providing its local Waterschool curriculum to Mission Paani to be shared in thousands of schools across India to educate children about their relationship with the environment, specifically water, and how human behaviours have both negative and positive impacts on the natural world. By encouraging students to understand the water-related problems facing environments like wetlands and rivers, and how this effects their communities, they can begin to adopt sustainable habits that could become the norm for future generations.
“We need to make people and children understand that water is a precious element.”
– Ravi Singh, Secretary General and CEO of WWF India
Waterschool
Title:Aldeias Modelo
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Outro foco da Swarovski Waterschool na Índia inclui a defesa de aldeias modelo. Existem já 10 aldeias modelo envolvidas no projeto, onde o ensino não só se concentra nos estudantes, mas também se estende aos agricultores locais. Mais de 800 agricultores receberam formação em práticas de conservação de água, bem como saneamento, e práticas agrícolas sustentáveis para reduzir o desperdício de água e a utilização de produtos químicos nocivos (tais como pesticidas e fertilizantes) nas terras agrícolas. O objetivo desta formação era mostrar aos agricultores como as práticas sustentáveis não só beneficiam o ambiente como também podem conduzir a colheitas mais prósperas.
A Swarovski Waterschool também modificou a água e o saneamento de cada aldeia modelo, reparando bombas manuais estatais, uma fonte chave de água doce nas aldeias, e construindo poços de imersão para reduzir os resíduos líquidos e de água. Estes esforços melhoraram a água potável de 1500 lares.
A Swarovski Waterschool espera que o seu trabalho contínuo com estudantes e agricultores na Índia reverta a crise da água no país, criando um ambiente mais saudável e mais sustentável para as gerações vindouras.
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A Swarovski Waterschool também modificou a água e o saneamento de cada aldeia modelo, reparando bombas manuais estatais, uma fonte chave de água doce nas aldeias, e construindo poços de imersão para reduzir os resíduos líquidos e de água. Estes esforços melhoraram a água potável de 1500 lares.
A Swarovski Waterschool espera que o seu trabalho contínuo com estudantes e agricultores na Índia reverta a crise da água no país, criando um ambiente mais saudável e mais sustentável para as gerações vindouras.
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