The Council of Tenerife rewards more than 5,000 children and adolescents from 82 educational centers de la Isla for their involvement in defending sustainability. The acting insular councilor of Sustainable Development and Fight against Climate Change, Javier Rodríguez Medina, awarded the prizes for the second edition of the Somos + Sostenibles school contest. The Island Corporation thus recognizes the involvement in caring for the environment and the work to raise awareness of good practices that is carried out by schools enrolled in the Aulas + Sostenibles program.
The closing act for this course of the initiative, which took place in the Santiago Martín Pavilionwas assisted byl Teachers and students of the participating centers of 4th year of Primary Education and 2nd year of Secondary Education. It should be noted that they presented original and very creative campaigns, full of ideas and awareness-raising messages, with magnificent and elaborate staging, in video, song or infographic format.
between the centers of Primary highlighted the CEIP Camino Largo, from La Lagunawho won first prize with the work Recycle used oil, you have me fried! and the CEIP Echeyde III, from the municipality of Arona, who won the second with The Green Patrol of Project R que R.
As for Secondary, the first prize went to the Ceip Purity of Maria de Santa Cruz for ¿5 environmental problems?, while the second prize was awarded to the work ¿Are we more sustainable? of the IES Sabino Berthelot of El Ravelo, in the municipality of El Sauzal. The CEIP María del Carmen Fernández Melián, from Tegueste, with Te retamos, and IES Professor Martín Miranda, in the municipality of La Laguna, also received a mention for the Rap-Ciclable project.
Students from Tenerife presented original and creative campaigns in this edition
Javier Rodriguez Medina He thanked the involvement and motivation of the schools participating in this contest, whose purpose is to make visible the good practices and the awareness actions carried out to promote sustainability. He assured that “we will only be able to achieve sustainable development and win this fight against climate change by making visible and supporting the ideas that we are awarding today.” He stressed that “these are ideas that come from and are put into practice by this highly prepared and conscientious youth, a generation that is an example for society to follow.”
The Somos + Sostenibles contest is part of the Aulas+ Sostenibles educational program, promoted and coordinated by the Environmental Education Unit of the Cabildo de Tenerife and developed by the Insular Society for the Promotion of People with Disabilities (Sinpromi). In this 2022-2023 academic year, 82 schools on the Island and a total of 5,186 male and female students have participated in this program, between the Primary and Secondary stages.
The Cabildo de Tenerife closed the 2021-2022 edition of the program with actions in 66 centers and before a total of 3,500 students between Primary and Secondary.
One of the most recent actions of this program has been the distribution of 80 compost bins in educational centers and to families that have an orchard. The intention is to move towards a development model based on the reduction, reuse and recycling of waste. Emphasize the importance of taking advantage of the organic fraction of waste, close to half of what is generated daily, to create a natural fertilizer for orchards and gardens. Pure circular economy, better since adolescence.
