-Creates Child Friendly and Safe Space
CAMGEW has engaged itself in Environmental Education with Kilum Ijim Forest Community children on Bushfires, causes of Bushfires, consequences and tools used in Preventing and Managing Bushfires. This took place in Oku on the 17th of December 2021. This activity took place with 26 community children made up of 10 boys and 16 girls.
It was an interactive program in which children identified the causes of Bushfires like smoking in and around the forest, burning of farms like the slash-and-burn method of farming, the burning of bushes to hunt animals, burning by grazers to get new vegetation for animals and poor methods of harvesting honey by untrained bee Farmers.
The
children were made to understand that Bushfires can result in the burning of
trees, hives, fruits, vegetables, animals which are all found in the forest.
Some of the consequences of Bushfires were identified together with the children. The children were shown some tools used in fighting Bushfires when they occurred. They were equally shown how to use these tools should the need arise.
The children also learnt that many people had died because of Bushfires and that farms had also been destroyed because of Bushfires. They also learnt that Bushfires had made many people to become poor and that these people have not been able to pay their children’s school fees, buy their children’s books and feed their families.
CAMGEW staff continued to tell them never to engage in bushfires and also to ask their parents or guardians never to involve in Bushfires. The Children learnt Christmas songs in preparation for Christmas. At the end of the session the children departed in a very happy mood for their homes.
By Francis
Ekongang Nzante
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