How Eco club changed my Life - Prina Dayal

Prina Dayal - Grade 10

Eco-club has changed my life in many ways. The main way that it is has changed my life is about being more Eco friendly to the environment.

The way my eating habits has changed, eating healthier and how you can eat healthy and the ways to reduce of how much of carbon we use to cook our food.

I like the trees and the outside environment, but I have realised that it is good to admire and take a picture of what the view is like but eco-club has taught me of how the view is actually maintained. I have realised this through: to maintain the vegetable garden, changing the soil, watering the plants and keeping eye on the plants like you have made a new friend. I have also started to like the colour green and looking at plants in a different aspect and to appreciate what Mother Nature has to offer us.

The beach clean ups, I always think that the beach is a relaxing place, but the pollution and the litter that is found seems to be a hidden truth. I never imagined how much of litter can harm the environment and the sea life to. To also be aware of litter in different areas and to pick it up.

The club has also taught me a lot of general knowledge about the atmosphere and how global warming has affected the environment also helped me in my school subjects too.

I am more aware of things I have not imagined of thinking of before, like a day dedicated to special animals and doing something to make the animal and its life significant. We have done Rhino day, it was not just about making an awareness but learning about why is the Rhino’s going extinct and understanding it in a better way, to get ideas on how we can actually prevent it.

In general eco-club has made me more aware of what is happening in my house, with food, recycling, and in the environment around me s well as, globally in the world.

What I have done in Eco-club

Project

One of the projects that I have done in eco-club was the project on global warming and how it affects the environment. We worked in groups of three and we got information of how the earth is affected in the role of global warming. We also choose to talk about global warming to the world and how it affects your part of the work on “askwhywhynot”, where we submit a video to share of how global warming is affecting the area we live in. One of my topics was the dehydration of plants and animals which decrease farmer’s profits, thereby affecting food for humans and for animals, creating food scarcity.

The Gardens

For the Westville Rotary club, I had to do a speech on gardening and what we do in our eco-club gardens.

What we do is Westville Girls High school has an organic vegetable garden, growing freshly produced from, carrots, lettuce, tomatoes and much more. We then sell the vegetables to our school tuckshop. The Westville Rotary club has also given us a budget for each of our topics and gardening had its special figure and we have shared with the Westville Rotary Club on what we will be using it for in various aspect. The list, we will be needing a harvested rain water tank for our vegetables, to save water and not use tap water. To have special manure to keep our vegetables moist and to keep the worms coming for us to see how our gardening is going. It was very interesting of what points we have brought up but now we need to put them in action.

Some of my ideas for the future are:

We can collect fruit peels and apple cores for use as compost in our gardens Starting a worm farm will use this solid wast too which is healthy for our environment. We can have a person or a class watering the garden twice a day.

We can have a environmental fundraiser helping the gardens of our school and to do this: We can grow crops and sell them to the public or parents of our school.

We can maybe have art students drawing nature pictures and we can sell it for our environment.

We can make an awareness in the school and maybe compare our school to the Birches.

We can have the Principal of the Birches having an assembly to inspire girls in our school to become more environmentally friendly. Once we have the money from our vegetables we can then use this money to buy: spades, forks, watering cans gloves and maybe get green T-SHIRTS for Westville girls high Eco- Club.

The topics we had to follow for our submission to the Westville Rotary was:

Purpose and mission

Situational analysis

Marketing strategy

Objectives and tactile problems

Budgets Performance

Analysis and implementations