D Green Ambassadors

Green Club Green club is an initiative of British Council under its Green Africa project, designed to get young people engaged practically in environment sustainability in Nigeria. As a strong instrument of change in any society, young people, classified into two groups of 11-17 (Green Champions) and 18-35 (Green Ambassadors) will form different groups in selected school, colleges and higher education. They will be well equipped through group discussion, training, seminars and debates, so as to be able to get engaged on several green activities with BC in the country. Aims and objectives To invoke in young people a sense of pride and responsibility that promotes environmentally sustainable lifestyles, behaviour and actions. To form partnerships towards conserving, protecting, nurturing and caring for the environment. To help young people explore their role in fostering positive change on environmental sustainability in Nigeria. To improve young people’s leadership, cooperative problem solving and critical thinking skills that will aid their ability to get engaged on the environmental issue. Planned Activities Green Education: This is the education awareness and training programme engaged on by our Green Champions and Ambassadors. This includes use of selected training manuals in different areas of eco-education, reduction and mitigation process. It will also include local and inter-state debates among the two sets of our Green leaders. Several medium are expected to be use to stimulate such training and debate, which includes interactive media, brainstorming sections, mobile cinema, group discussion and online training. Green in Action: This will include several practical exercises on environmental sustainability and climate change issues. Some of which include collaboration with identified local government and corporate firm in different states for a clean up exercise in different strategic areas, we will take part in the Clean-up the world activity in September 2008. We are also getting involved in planting of tree in accordance with UNEP program “Billion tree campaigns”. Demonstration on how mismanagement of waste contributes to climate change and how this could be mitigated through basic inputs. Football matches among our teams. Organising a youth-led march and/or run for life activity to disseminate information about the need to protect the environment on the occasion of World Environment Day in June 2008. This event will be followed by a live debate/conference on the state of the environment in Nigeria and the expectations of the youth. Green Competition: We will get our Green Champions and Green Ambassadors involved in several local and international competitions, we expected that such competition should help to strengthen local participation and stimulate strong interest in our Clubs, we also hope that this will bring strong networking and cultural bridge between our clubs and several international organisation most particularly from the United Kingdom. Green Exhibition: We will use exhibitions to showcase the work of students from all over Nigeria, who participated in BC environmental contests throughout the year. The exhibits will include recycled toys, drawings, songs, films and cartoons. This will also provide avenue for Nigeria environmental NGOs to network through discussion panels. We are also going to be involved in Zero Carbon City exhibition in Nigeria to showcase many areas of climate change. Green Youth Summit: We will organise a yearly summit, to share ideas further and develop strategies on how the youth want to Channel the course of environmental sustainability and particularly Climate change in Nigeria and to highlight local practises that are working.