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The Guyana Mangrove Restoration Project (GMRP) has begun a massive education drive in the Berbice schools. According to Head of the MRP, Mrs Annette Arjoon- Martins,Wholesale MLB Jerseys 2018, specially tailored presentations have been prepared to deal with teaching the children about mangroves and mangrove preservation.“If you start with the kids when they are young, it will be much easier,” she noted. A manual was also developed, in collaboration with University of Guyana through Phillip Da Silva, and others. Copies of this manual have been presented to various schools.Education Officer of the GMRP, Paul Mc Adam, visited the Vryman’s Erven High School,Authentic NBA Jerseys Cheap, Berbice High,NFL Jerseys Supply, and N/A Multilateral Senior Secondary on Thursday and hosted presentations with students, so that they could have been educated about the concepts of mangroves and mangrove preservation.The education outreach will continue to primary schools later.“What we are doing here is spreading our mangrove message,Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale, particularly in areas where we are doing replanting and restoration activities,” he noted.Mrs Annette Arjoon- Martins hands over the Schools' GMRP Manual to Deputy HM of Vryman's High School,Cheap Football Jerseys, Melba LaGoudoueHe said that the students’ responses were very good. He is optimistic that the children will go home and tell their parents of their newfound knowledge.According to Mc Adam, in the longer term,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, some essay drives, school quizzes and similar activities will be launched in Berbice.“There is a collaboration between NCERD (the National Centre for Education Resource and Development) and the Ministry of Education,China Jerseys Wholesale, and they are keen to take part in whatever activity we are pushing in the schools.”Berbice now has its first Mangrove forest which will bring with it a host of other benefits to the community as well as the region.The Wellington Park Mangrove Reserve on the Corentyne was launched last Wednesday through an on-site visit by a team of officials from the Mangrove Restoration Project (MRP), headed by Ms Annette Arjoon- Martins. |
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