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More on children and the Kampala COP (13/10/05)
Hello again everyone:
Following my email to the list on the 7th October (you can see it online here http://www.ramsar.org/outreach_news.htm), I have collated below the responses received so far – my thanks to those who responded. Some are very creative and all have potential. Time of course is the limiting factor as Rose Hogan suggests below since it is less than four weeks until many people will be leaving to make the trip to Uganda. This affects my time too since there is still a great deal to do at the Secretariat before we leave for Kampala. I hope that the CEPA Focal Points from Africa on this list are able to pick up on this and perhaps work some magic in their own countries and with their delegations going to the COP. And of course some ideas can be taken forward after the COP as a follow-up by the countries.
From Christine Prietto, Australia:
Regarding ideas for local children, I think it needs to be simple. I am thinking about students producing something that they could deliver, in person through a small delegation, during the COP.
So things to consider are coming up with something that lots of children could participate in before the COP but is then quite easy to deliver or display during the COP.
Here are a few ideas but the decision would need to be made by local teachers in response to skills and materials available to local children.
1. a small craft item, a paper bird, one of the iconic species that visits their wetlands, or a small wetland insect woven out of plant material, that is produced in large numbers, then offered to conference attendees as a souvenir from the COP. It would be good too if the item could carry the name of the child that made it.
2. a painted banner that can be on display.
3. one page illustrated stories about local wetlands that can be collected in small booklets. The booklets could be titled to reflect the COP event and theme. Older children might be able to scale up the book idea so that they can provide more text on what the wetlands means to them in their daily lives. So the booklet idea could range from small children to older children easily and demonstrate what children understand about wetlands.
From Lima Rosalind, India:
Most of our Asian children do not know much about the lifestyles of children in Uganda/Africa.
One of the suggestions is for the children with the help of their teachers to showcase their closeness to nature with the help of exhibits on the kind of resources that they use from the wild in their day to day life and work e.g. food from the wetlands, ropes, Kinds if fishing tools, nets how do they interact with the wetlands etc. WWF- India has a network of schools across the country. How do our children participate other than sending across the paintings?
Murugaiyan. P, Seychelles: has informed the Secretariat that he will be working with a school to investigate the possibility of preparing and sending paintings to the COP
Rose Hogan, Tanzania:
I wonder if there would still be time for each of the African national focal points to advertise nationally for children to send their artistic messages about wetlands to the national focal points and the best one be chosen to represent that country at the COP 9 in Kampala? That young artist could also be sent a small prize and get mentioned in the national newspaper.
Best wishes, Sandra Hails, Ramsar Secretariat
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Sandra Hails, CEPA Programme Officer
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