The Environmental Delegation in the Mijas Town Hall has initiated a new environmental education programme aimed at the more than 600 five-year-old schoolchildren in the municipality. It forms part of the Town Hall’s Reforestation Plan, and its basic aim is that families with children in the locality take better care of their natural surroundings.
Each five-year-old schoolchild in the municipality will be presented with a specially packaged sapling to be cared for at home and eventually planted in the surrounding countryside, complete with instructions on how to do so. The children will also be asked to keep a diary of the progress of their own tree, along with other activities relating to nature, the environment and recycling, and their own views on the project.
The programme ends with the planting of the tree in its natural environment. There will also be associated activities in the school aimed at encouraging the children to take a keener interest in caring for the environment. Stories of the woods and the trees and animals that live there, as well as their relationship with man, will be told through the use of puppets. The programme is titled “Who plants the trees?”, and it forms part of the Town Hall’s Reforestation Plan for the municipality, in which a total of 1,400 people from the municipality, most of them schoolchildren, will be involved.
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So far, only older pupils were involved in the programme, with approximately 800 pupils from the primary school and about the same number from the secondary school taking part some months ago in the reforestation of the Osunillas, Fuente La Teja, Puerto La Gitana, Rosal de Aguado and the Los Arenales mines forestry areas. As a result, some 5,000 trees were planted throughout the municipality.
