Webfala Digital Trains Secondary School Students on Climate Action in Kwara
By Oyewale Oyelola
A non-governmental organisation, Webfala Digital Skills for all Initiative has trained students of secondary schools in Kwara State on Climate Change and its impact on humanity.
The training which was tagged ‘Do Day Climate Justice Ambassador Summit’, held at the University of Ilorin on Thursday, March 3, 2022, and was supported by the DO Way School, Germany and the Cooperation in International Waters Africa (CIWA).
The participants drawn from twenty secondary schools across Kwara State were trained as Climate Justice Ambassadors and will drive implementation of actions to combat climate change in their schools and society at large on a continuous basis.
The Executive Director Brain Builders Youth Development Initiative (BBYDI), Olasupo Abideen in his presentation, said there was a need for free flow of credible and factual information to combat climate change.
Olasupo Abideen said goal 13 of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals calls for urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts, noting that the goal connects to all the other SDG goals.
He therefore charged the new Climate Justice Ambassadors to cascade the information to the grassroots and take bold steps towards combating Climate Change impacts.
Abimbola Abikoye, Abuja based Climate Action Advocate in her presentation said Climate Change posed serious threat to human existence and therefore called for collective active to mitigate against its impact.
Earlier, the Executive Director of Webfala Digital Skills for all Initiative, Nafisat Bakare, in her remarks said the initiative aims at training young people between age 9 and 16 years as Climate Justice Ambassadors so that they can raise aware about climate change among their peers.
Bakare explained that the submit will build school students to be among first to help create the next generation of climate leaders.
“It’s a one day event where 60 students from secondary schools will be trained as Climate Justice Ambassadors and will be committed to getting active and implementing actions to combat climate change on a continuous basis. To raise consciousness towards developing environmentally friendly characters in young adults, creating the ripple effect for the creation of quality life and environment.” She added
At the end, the students engaged in brainstorming session to develop strategies to combat climate change within their locality.
The students in their group work recommended ways to combat climate change which include: tree planting and anti-deforestation crusade, adoption of renewable energy including usage cooking gas by rural women, stop building of production companies in residential area, Farmers should desist from bush burning and increased enlightenment.
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