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I was last week in Slovakia as FEE mentor for Spirala, the FEE organisation in Slovakia. Spirala is an umbrella orgnization for environmental education. The have a good EcoSchools programme and they are starting Young Reporters for the Environment. The energycompany VSE, what means Energie in Eastern Slovakia, is sponsor for the EcoSchools programme. We visited an EcoSchool where children cleaned the border of a river. They took photographes before and after their activities to show the inhabitants the effect of cleaning. They hope that the border of the river will stay clean. |
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The birth of the Donation shop |
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Beginning 2008 Henny Kromhout board member of FEE-Netherlands played with the idea to create a shop for FEE participants. He asked the ANWB to help with this plan, and this way I got involved.
Together with Henny we created this FEE donation shop. Important criteria were the new site should be informative, fun and support FEE members.
We're looking at a great opportunity now to support the thousands of FEE people with their local projects. We hope this site will help with the promotion of the results of the hard work of these volunteers.
Please let us know what you think of the Donation shop and how we can improve it!
Marco Sprenkels |
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World Wide Eco-Schools in Morocco |
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 Next week is the National Operators Meeting of Eco-Schools in Morocco. This annual meeting is important to share new developments, to discuss the programme and to present experiences from different countries and their cultures. There are representatives from 35 countries together in Morocco.
One of the new developments is the Donationshop. Slovakia and the Netherlands started with this internetprogramme. South Africa and Kenya delivered already projects.
We hope to get a lot of proposals from other countries after the meeting in Morocco.
(Hennie Kromhout) |
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 During the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE-International) and UNEP conference in Nairobi, together with others, I visited a school in one of the slums of Nairobi. It was a special experience. Thousands of shacks built from corrugated iron plates and wooden planks, dirt roads, everything for sale and everyone left to their own devices. The residents try to find work in the tourist industry, shops and as domestic help. The slum has its own economy and children attend school, in as far as that is possible. The teachers earn very low wages, a number of children are unable to pay the low school fees and the school lacks every imaginable resource.
With the FEE Donation Shop we are drawing attention to projects in order to raise money to allow these children to go to school. The amounts involved are relatively small but for the locals they are considerable. |
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In Nederland heeft op 16 december 2008 de staatssecretaris van Verkeer en Waterstaat de watercanon gelanceerd. Aan de hand van 25 velden wordt onze relatie met het water inzichtelijk gemaakt.
Waterkwaliteit en waterkwantiteit zijn uiteraard een continu aandachtspunt in Nederland. Maar ook in de rest van de wereld is water van levensbelang en bepaalt het de kansen op een gezond bestaan. In het programma Eco-Schools en in de diverse proecten op deze donationshop kunnen we onze betrokkenheid tonen.
Hak van Nispen |
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Eco-Schools meeting in Rabat - Morocco |
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Last week the coordinators for Eco-Schools from 41 countries had a meeting in Rabat - Morocco. We visited a school in Rabat. They called us warm welcome and they demonstrated how they deal with their surroundings. They told us how old customs still live in their society. |
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Succes for Donationshop in Hawkstone |
 Thanks to finacial contributions from individuals a dangerous wall at the point of collapse was replaced. The material was purchased from the money that was donated and the contractor in South Africa did the work for free. That's what we call a nice cooperation. The teachers and students can now go back without danger of collapse of the wall.
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Launch www.donationshop.org |
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Friday, December 12, is the official start of the Donationshop developed by FEE Netherlands and Slovakia. Guido van Woerkom, CEO of the ANWB and Ambassador of FEE-N will together with a member of the Embassy of Slovakia perform the official opening. We hope to get a lot of attention visits and feedback.
Please promote and contribute to: www.donationshop.org |
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CEO ANWB, Mr. van Woerkom receives first certificate |
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 And then was the moment. In The Hague at 12.12.08 was the official launch of the Donationshop. Mr. Guido van Woerkom, CEO of the ANWB and an employee of the Embassy of Slovakia, mr. Jan Cipov bought the first certificates.
It was a interesting happening, together with the persons who initiated the Donationshop.
Look around in this shop and tell everybody about it. |
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Best wishes 2008 and 2009 |
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What were your best wish about the environment in 2008? No wishes and no practises? Oh no, you can compensate your CO2 emission now when you drove a car or when went by plane in 2008.
Go to the special part of this Donationshop for the CO2 fund. You will find information aboaut the amount you have to donate in your special situation.
FEE uses this donations for treeplanting or schoolgardens. The main aim is to support sustainable developments by environmental education. School get a financial support for tree planting. Your donations will be used for this purpose.
Henny Kromhout |
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Omroep LLink en FEE-Nederland |
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Educatie verloopt op veel manieren. Een er van is via televisie. De omroep LLink doet veel aan 'groene' informatie. Daarmee proberen ze veel doelgroepen te bereiken die ook voor onze programma's in FEE-Nederland belangrijk zijn.
Zij visualiseren op een aantrekkelijke manier waardoor de informatie goed overkomt. Zij vertellen ook over de achtergronden waarom wij zuinig moeten zijn op onze omgeving en wat wij er zelf aan kunnen bijdragen.
Dat is meer dan informatie, dat is ook educatie.
Als u dit leest: denk er eens over om voor nog geen €5,- deze omroep te steunen. Zij hebben voor 1 maart van dit jaar nog veel leden nodig om te blijven bestaan. FEE-Nederland ondersteunt LLink.
Henny Kromhout |
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Welkom bij de FEE Donatiewinkel |
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Ondersteun een betere leefomgeving en steun een van de vele FEE projecten voor mileu educatie. Surf door de vele projecten en draag een steentje bij door een uniek cadeau-certificaat te kopen. U kunt dit certificaat aan iedereen geven en toon daarmee uw betrokkenheid voor een betere leefomgeving.
Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) is een niet-overheids organisatie zonder winstkenmerk. Wij richten ons op duurzame ontwikkelingen door middel van mileu educatie.
FEE is hoofdzakelijk actief door vijf educatieve programmas: Blauwe vlag, Eco-Schools, Young Reporters for the Environment, Learning about Forests and Green Key. |
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FEE is a non-profit and non-governmental organisation promoting sustainable development through environmental education.
Green Key is an eco-label for companies within tourism: hotels, youth hostels, conference- and holiday centres, campsites, holidayhouses, leisure facilities and restaurants.
The Learning About Forests programme aims to encourage school classes and teachers to use forests for educational activities. The aim is to support teachers and pupils to go to forests, learn from them and in them, and to learn further by sharing experiences internationally.
Young Reporters for the Environment is a Programme designed for secondary school pupils and teachers. Each group must define its own investigation project about a local environmental issue (which topic, which activities, which production).
Eco-Schools is a programme for environmental management and certification, designed to implement sustainable development education in schools by encouraging children and youth to take an active role in how their school can be run for the benefit of the environment.
The Blue Flag is an eco- label awarded to more than 3450 beaches and marinas in 41 countries worldwide .