ZIG GREEN Actions and Education

With our project “ZIG GREEN Actions and Education”, Système-D has been helping to develop sustainable thinking and acting since the spring of 2018, especially with the young residents of Ziguinchor. Locally experienced, everyday difficulties, such as Health care and scarcity of resources, waste problems, deforestation and sea-level rise are discussed in common educational events and actions in public space, and better alternatives are tested. Teachers and students are trained as facilitators for the environment and set up environmental clubs in different schools in Ziguinchor. These clubs will be constantly involved in the theme and will continue to perform actions in schools and in the city.

From 24.-26. August 2018 “greenafrique symposium for environment and education” took place in the Museum am Rothenbaum (MARKK) in Hamburg, download GREENafrique_Programm

From 1.-15. In December 2018, 30 teachers, social workers and students successfully attended the ZIG GREEN training course.

photography by Anja Schäfer

During the training we developed two booklets for teachers and students.

From March to June 2019, various schools in Ziguinchor held ZIG GREEN actions with theatre-sketches, clean-up activities, craft activities, a trip to Djibelor for planting and gardening, and a large demonstration of schools and children across Ziguinchor for a better future. #FridayForFuture has arrived in Ziguinchor!