Set-up of formal and informal environment clubs for the sustainability of the project

CEHRD successfully set-up 4 formal and 4 informal environmental clubs in both states namely: 1. Community Secondary School Mogho, Rivers State (Formal) 2. Community Environmental Club Mogho, Rivers State (Informal) 3. Community Secondary School Biara, Rivers State (Formal) 4. Community Environmental Club Biara, Rivers State (Informal) 5. Government Girls Secondary School Kaiama, Bayelsa State (Formal) 6. Community Environmental Club Kaiama, Bayelsa State (Informal) 7. Sampou Grammar School, Sampou Bayelsa State (Formal) 8. Community Environmental Club Sampou, Bayelsa State (Informal) The 8 established clubs each had 20 pioneer members. CEHRD set-up the environmental clubs with the mission to build community youths’ capacity in green development and environmental conservation, encouraging them to study, practice, care and advocate for environmental sustainability within their immediate environs. During the inauguration meeting, the club members were taught basic environmental terminologies and emerging issues that are affecting our lives as it relates to the environment. The activity engaged community youths and secondary school age boys and girls in environmental education directed at forming their minds for a future in the Niger Delta region. The aim is to catch them young and sensitize them on emerging global environmental issues with local impacts. The capacity of the beneficiaries are strengthened and are given the basic orientation for behavioural change towards the environment, thereby acting as environmental vanguards in their immediate communities.