The future well-being of future generations is seriously threatened by climate change. Children are important stakeholders in their future. To highlight children's perceptions of the impacts and solutions of climate change, a group of public health scientists from Johns Hopkins University and the Child In Need Institute (CINI) NGO organized a thought and art workshop on January 12 and 13, 2023, to coincide with National Youth Day.
The Child In Need Institute (CINI) NGO organized a special rally from Kolkata to Kultali with the kids on the occasion of National Youth Day with the theme "What Children Want" to raise awareness about Climate Change. Children from Kolkata traveled to Kultali in green vehicles that were adorned with flowers, grass-thatched roofs, educational display materials, and posters and banners that discussed the topic of interest.
In order to facilitate interactive sessions and encourage critical thinking on the topic of climate change and its effects on day-to-day life, the rally was equipped with Informative Educative Communication materials in the form of posters, danglers, and handouts organized by CINI.
Global Climate Change & Children Interlinked
As soon as they arrived in Kultali, the young brigade met the local congregation of 20 young children and teenagers who live in the Sundarbans region and are active members of the neighborhood district child parliaments. They were invited to express their opinions about climate change through art centered around two themes: "Mother Earth is sick. Are we the virus?" and "There is no Planet B."
Their works of art and stories will be compiled into a book to help them share their ideas with the world. A potent tool for fostering meaningful climate change engagement, art has the power to transform both the creator and the audience.
The primary goal will be to include about 2,000 kids in the interactive sessions and activities on the periphery. This would be accomplished as each child engaged and interacted with his or her peer group to engage at least five of the friends, which again, through repetition, builds up a network of young minds interested in the field of environmental awareness. Based on a shared and global platform of environmental change and its effects, the above has the potential to act as a bridge between geo-ethnic and economic-social divides.
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