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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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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 .