Sharjah Sustainability Award - Green Schools

Out of the box green ideas have made the difference

Delhi Private School, Sharjah under the leadership and guidance of our Principal Mrs Vandana Marwaha, bagged the first Sharjah Sustainable Award instituted by the Sharjah Government and Environment and Protected Area Authority, Sharjah.

The objective of this award is to entrench the principles of sustainable development in schools and to promote good environmental culture amongst students and staff. Delhi Private School, Sharjah participated in the category for the Environmental Sustainable Project. The submitted projects were closely related to the “Area of protecting the wildlife environment and preserving its biological diversity”. Three months of brainstorming, research and compilation by a group of dedicated students and teachers led by Ms.Anjum Hasan, the Project Coordinator, culminated in the form of the following:

1) An Innovative Modern Idea - ‘Tag Fish! Save Fish! Save Marine Life! :

Choose Your Fish Wisely - This campaign was launched by the students to raise awareness within the community about the importance of biodiversity and importance of protecting endangered species of fishes viz. Hamour and Sherry, which are on the verge of extinction.

Fish Tagging at Madina and Safeer Super Markets near School

2) An Innovative Short Film - ‘Be the seed of change’:

How landfills can be turned beneficial - We live in the beautiful country UAE and our school is located in the beautiful city – Sharjah. Yet we witness the ecological destruction of our surrounding caused by uncontrolled dumping of waste. The old landfill near our school motivated us to take up the germ of an idea, to redevelop it into an area where interdependent flora and fauna can thrive again.

     

3) An Innovative Poster - ‘Save Nature’ :

To capture in our canvas the beauty of nature in all its glory students painted an innovative poster (A1 size) to convey the theme.

   
The project submission was followed by a field visit to our school by a panel of judges from the EPAA and Sharjah Department of Culture. Our school projects on sustainability were shown to the panel.

Inspection Team from EPAA (Environment Protected Area Authority, Gov. of Sharjah) at School

Principal Mrs Vandana Marwaha congratulated the entire team comprising of members from different departments - Ms.Anjum Hasan (Environment Coordinator, Bio Dept) Ms.Sabitha Mohyadeen (H.O.D. Bio Dept), Ms.Prabha Sundar (H.O.D. English Dept), Ms.Anu Bali and Richa Puri (Art Dept), Mr Rahul (P.E Dept), Ms.Chitra Raghavan (Supervisor-Senior Girls, Eng Dept), Ms.Nanditha Jitesh (Maths Dept). She also congratulated the entire faculty and administrative staff for this commendable achievement. The following students were involved in this project: Vyashak Satheesh, Maryam Siddiqui, Shria Sadhu, Shraddha Sundar, Afnan Abdul Rahman, Lubna Mahmood, Eehita Chabbra, Himanshu Tyagi, Lochan Yoganathan, Akhlesh Naidu and Madhur Singal.

Award presentation ceremony at Police Science Academy, Sharjah. The Chief Guest for the occasion was His Highness Sheikh Sultan Al Qasimi and the Awards were presented by the Director of Epaa Ms Hana Al Suweidi.

   

This prestigious award will boost our morale and determination in scaling new heights on sustainability.