Environmental Education and Youth Engagement / Reforestation and Green Spaces

Environmental Education in Schools

Schoolyard planting in Qamishli that invited children to take part in caring for green spaces and learning about their environment.

Children participating in an environmental classroom workshop — Representative environmental education photograph supplied by Warshin; not direct documentation of the 2022 planting campaign.

Background

Under the slogan “Environment is Life”, Warshin coordinated with three schools in Qamishli’s Al-Hilaliyeh neighbourhood on schoolyard planting. The activity linked the care of school spaces with children’s participation in cultivation.

Objectives

Create green spaces in schoolyards.
Involve children in practical planting and care for shrubs.
Encourage understanding of environmental responsibility in the places children use every day.

Activities implemented

The English and Arabic activity reports describe coordination with three schools and tree planting in their yards.
The reports describe children’s involvement in cultivation as a way to encourage responsibility for plants and awareness of the importance of green spaces.
The recorded period is 30 October to 1 November 2022.

Documented outcomes

The activity reports record schoolyard planting and the participation of children in the cultivation process. They do not provide a measured educational assessment or a long-term tree-survival evaluation. The documented activity is therefore described without claiming a quantified change in children’s knowledge or behaviour.

Context & attribution

The photographs on this page illustrate Warshin’s environmental education activities. They are not presented as photographs of the specific 2022 schoolyard campaign, and children are not identified by name.