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OSCE supports environmental summer camps for schoolchildren in Ukraine

  • Environmental expert Tetyana Gilberg explains the main principles of sustainable development and gives practical advice for “green” life-style, 28 June 2012. (OSCE)
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  • Children drawing their impressions of the Easter Island story, which serves as an example and warning of the over-exploitation of natural resources, 28 June 2012. (OSCE)
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  • A group of secondary school children make a presentation on environmental dangers and measures to solve them, 28 June 2012. (OSCE)
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  • Schoolchildren at the camp take part in an exercise on environment impacts to human health. The exercise aimed to enhance their knowledge of healthy lifestyles, 29 June 2012. (OSCE)
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  • Summer camp participants learn from how they can minimize the most dangerous factors of water pollution during a practical exercise, 30 June 2012. (OSCE)
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  • Young activists in the process of cleaning a stream during an exercise on water sustainability during summer camp supported by OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine in Khmelnystkyi region, 30 June 2012. (OSCE)
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  • Guided by Tetyana Gilberg, an expert in the field of environmental education, children learn about the main pollutants of water, 30 June 2012 (OSCE)
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  • Secondary school children and teachers gather for a group photo after completion of the three-day summer camp supported by OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine in Khmelnystkyi region, 30 June 2012. (OSCE)
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50 schoolchildren from Ukraine discussed environmental protection and sustainable development during a summer camp in the Khmelnystkyi region on 28-30 June 2012. The three-day camp was supported by OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU) and the Ministry of Education and Science, Youth and Sports.

The students learned about international documents on the interaction between state authorities and the public on environment protection matters, including access to public information, citizens’ participation and access to justice. They also engaged in practical exercises focusing on sustainable development issues, including natural resources protection and conservation. 

In July, two more summer camps were organized in the Mykolayiv and Ternopil regions of Ukraine. The summer camps were held as part of a PCU project aimed at environmental education in secondary schools in Ukraine. In 2012-2013, the project is being implemented with support from the governments of the United States of America and Germany.