Proposal on

Awareness Campaign on Environmental Issues in

Government Schools of Lalitpur and Kathmandu
(On the occasion of Environment day, June 5, 2011)

Submitted by:
Alliance for Sustainable Development (ASD)

Sankhamool, Kathmandu

E-mail: asd.nepal2010@gmail.com
1. Introduction
A clean and green environment is a major concern for each and every nation around the world.
Although people have reasonable access to information on the environment, its issues and the
measures taken to preserve the environment, people still are unconscious about the healthy
environment due to their negative attitude and behavior. Today, people throw waste haphazardly,
polluting the environmental resources. Moreover, they don’t practice healthy hygienic behavior.
Therefore, these unhealthy and unhygienic practices need to be brought to an end to create a
healthy environment.

Alliance for Sustainable Development (ASD) is a non-profit non-governmental organization

established in 2010. ASD anticipates contributing for sustainable community development with
vigorous research and action in environment, forestry, public health, agriculture and social
issues. Members of ASD focus towards the establishment of an equitable society that
appreciates and respects inherent individual human dignity with balance ecology addressing
Millennium Development Goal. The overall goal of the ASD is to establish an economically
well-sustained society maintaining ecological balance.

2. Rationale
We all are aware that we develop our personal and moral behavior if we work in harmony with
nature. If we keep on loving our nature and follow the path shown by the nature, then the
behavior we inherit at the early stage will remain forever and the lessons can be handed over to
the future generation. We also know that bottom up teaching practices is an effective way to
disseminate message within the community – children bring their knowledge home and share it
eagerly with their family and communities.

One of the sector in which education lags behind is the practice of environment-friendly behavior
at the community level. Although children are taught about their surroundings, environmental
problems and the preventive measures to keep environment safe, there is only little change in
attitude and practice to create clean and safe environment. This is because the teaching practice
is limited to theoretical knowledge only. Therefore, this project is carried out to raise awareness
among the students so that they practice environmentally friendly behavior in their school and at
their household level such as concept of 4R principles of waste management (re-use, re-duce, re-
cycle, re-think), tree-planting, cleaning the surrounding, personal hygiene behavior (hand-
washing) and safe drinking water.
3. Goal and Objectives
The major goal of the project is to create awareness on environmental issues by involving the
student in environmentally friendly practices. The specific objectives of the project will be as
follows:

• To provide training of trainers (ToT) to the volunteers about current environmental issues
and preventive measures

• To create awareness about the clean and safe environment by disseminating knowledge
about environmentally friendly behavior to the students

• To transform the knowledge of sustainable hygiene behavior from children to their

household level

• To demonstrate the concept of 4R principles to the students

• To conduct clean up campaign within the school

4. Project sites
Four government schools will be selected in Lalitpur and Kathmandu Municipality in close
coordination with Lalitpur Sub-Metropolitan City and Kathmandu Metropolitan City. Awareness
raising activities will be conducted in school and high priority will be given to the students of
class 6 and 7.

5. Duration of the campaign

May 30 to June 5 (7 days)

6. Expected Outputs
Following will be the expected outputs of the awareness campaign:

• Altogether 12 volunteers will be trained on environmental issues who will further train
120 students in 4 schools

• Students will be made aware on the current environmental problems and develop their
skills and knowledge on how to prevent environment
 • Students will develop a concept of “Learning by doing” and will replicate their
knowledge at their individual household

• It will create awareness at mass level

7. Implementing Plan
Following will be the activities of the campaign:

Date Planned Activities Description

May 30-31 Training of Trainers • Introduction to environment, associated problems and
(ToT) to volunteers preventive measures
• 4R principles (Reduce, Reuse, Re-cycling, Rethink) -
theoretical and practical
• Personal hygiene behavior such as hand-washing
• Safe drinking water
June 1 School Health and • Introduction to environment (surroundings, natural
environmental classes resources)
• Various environmental issues
• Preventive measures
• Interaction with students
• Environmental games
June 2 Creative Art class Practical knowledge:
from waste (Re-use, • Re-cycling waste paper
Re-duce, Re-cycle and • Making paper bags, postcard and slogan
Re-think)
June 3 Art Competition • Paintings regarding environmental issues focusing on
(Near river bank) Bagmati river
June 4 Clean-up Campaign/ • School clean-up (Toilet, drinking water spots,
Plantation/ Hand- playground)
washing  Surrounding (Roads, temple areas)
• Awareness raising in the community
• Tree plantation in the name of the student
• Demonstration on three critical times of hand-washing
June 5 Awareness Raising • Waste collection at Basantapur and Mangalbazar in a
distance of 50m gap and reward the users with sapling.
• Create awareness on fuel saving in main junction of the
road when there is red traffic light
 • Disseminate message to the passengers not to throw the
waste out of the vehicle in the major highway
• Students with astray at the main junction and people
who throw cigarette waste in the astray will be rewarded

8. Budget Breakdown
S.No. Program Unit Rate (Rs.) Total Budget(Rs.) Contribution
1 Training of Trainers (ToT) to volunteers
1.1 Lunch 16 200 3,200
1.2 Stationary 16 40 640 ASD
1.3 Hall 2 1000 2000
1.4 Banner 1 1000 1000
1.5 Resource person 2 1000 2000 ASD
2 School Health and Environmental classes
2.1 Transportation 14 50 700
2.2 Stationary (chart paper, marker, masking tape) LS LS 2500 ASD
Creative Art class from waste (Re-use, Re-
3 duce, Re-cycle and Re-think) -4 schools
3.1 Transportation 14 50 700
3.2 Resource person 2 1000 2000 ASD
3.3 Miscellaneous (glue, tape, scissor, colors etc.) 4 1000 4000
4 Art Competition (Near river bank) - 4 schools
4.1 Art paper 80 10 800
4.2 Pencil 100 5 500
4.3 Water Color 80 20 1600
4.4 Transportation 20 50 1000
4.5 Refreshment 100 50 5000
4.6 Banner 1 1000 1000
4.7 Gift LS LS 1,500
5 Clean-up Campaign/Plantation/ Hand-washing
5.1 Bucket etc 40 200 8,000
5.2 Broom 40 50 2,000
5.3 Gloves (4 packets) 4 700 2,800
5.4 Mask (2 packets) 2 700 1,400
5.5 Soap 30 20 600
5.6 Refreshment 200 50 10,000
5.7 Banner 4 600 2,400
 5.8 Transportation for volunteers LS LS 1,500
6 Awareness Raising
6.1 Dustbin/ Astray 30 100 3,000
6.2 Transportation 20 50 1,000
6.3 Refreshment 50 50 2,500
6.4 Banner 4 600 2400
6.5 Ribbon for plant 1 200 200
TOTAL 67,940
Total: NRs Sixty seven thousand nine hundred and forty only

9. Contact persons
a) Anjani Joshi (9841668956)
b) Bikash Maharjan (9841347037)
c) Rajesh Byanjankar (9803685985)
May 18, 2011

To,

The Chairperson

……………………………………………………,

…………………………………………………….

Subject: Request to release partial fund for environment campaign

Dear Sir/ Madam,

This is to inform you that Alliance for Sustainable Development (ASD) has proposed to
implement the program “Awareness Campaign on Environmental Issues in Government Schools
of Lalitpur and Kathmandu” from May 30 to June 5, 2011. The program has been designed in
such a way that the message will be disseminated to large audience through various awareness
activities. As we are collecting fund from various organizations, we would like to request you to
partially fund for the project activities to make the campaign successful.

I look forward to hear positive response from you. Thank you very much for your kind co-
operation and support.

Sincerely,

…………………………

Bikash Maharjan

Program Coordinator