Sustainability put into practice
NORTH RIDING – Wild Serve gets learners to put their sustainability theory into practice at Honeydew Sports Club
On 2 October the Wild Serve Environmental Educational Project broke ground at the Honeydew Sports Club.
The project has been a culmination of months of environmental education aimed at primary school learners. The practical exercise was an opportunity for learners to put the theory they have been taught to work.
The project involved many stakeholders from the community and has provided a great way for a collaboration which benefits the environment to take place. Child Care Centres, local primary schools and the Scouts were the source of learners from diverse backgrounds which have come together for the purpose of environmental education and positive change.
Dirk Engelbrecht, divisional manager of Wild Serve, detailed the process which has led to the project and how it originated from the non-profit’s ideals of sustainability. The project has received a great deal of support in the form of sponsorship from community stakeholders. Sponsors included Mica Paint North Riding (formerly Jacks Paint), Honeydew Fruit and Veg, Stepping Stones Garden Village, The Honeydew Sports Club, Belgro Nursery and would like to extend their gratitude to sponsors as well as to partners that included Breedlife Farms and the Eco-Bricks project.
Learners were physically involved with the various projects created on sight at Honeydew Sports Club. The activities included owl houses, an aquaponics greenhouse and a vegetable garden where learners worked in shifts, supervised by adults and representatives from Wild Serve Engelbrecht, Hiral Naik and Michael Schrenk. All the activities were bonded by the thread of sustainability. The activities continued on Monday with a live-streamed panel discussion with BBC. BBC has shown interest in the project and was also on-site on 2 October with a production team which documented the activity.
Learners on-site were very eager to engage with the Randburg Sun about what they had learnt in the last couple of months. Emma Freshman and Aadil Jadwat, Grade 7 and 6 learners respectively from Tutor the Future, agreed that the favourite part of their involvement in the Environmental Educational Project was that they ‘learnt something new’.
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