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WWF-Pakistan

WWF is one of the world’s largest conservation organisations. WWF-Pakistan has been working in Pakistan for over 40 years to conserve nature and ecological processes by conserving world’s biological diversity; ensuring the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable; and promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption. Essentially, to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature.

Green School Certification Programme

The Green School Programme plays an important role in ensuring the future sustainability of environmental resources of Pakistan by bringing a positive change in the attitude of Pakistan’s young people and will help to promote a more mature environmentally conscious generation.

The Programme is planned for the whole year to give students regular insight into the eco dynamics and the overall environmental challenges faced at global and regional level, to broaden student’s scope as a responsible custodian of valuable natural resources and to consequently inculcate civic responsibility in them.

Benefits to the Green School

The Green School will be associated with the first Green School Certification Programme in Pakistan

The School will be amongst pioneer Green Schools in Pakistan The Green School will get full coverage in WWF-Pakistan’s website under the Green

School Section The School will get promotional space in WWF-Pakistan’s Annual Report as a Green

School WWF-Pakistan will give registered Green School a right to use Deodar Tree Green School

logo The School will get free stalls at the annual Travelling Nature Carnival Free Subscription to WWF-Pakistan’s quarterly magazine: Natura Coverage of Green Activities in WWF-Pakistan’s monthly newsletter – Panda Post Green School activity coverage on radio via Green School Radio Media Partner

Green Student Benefits

The Green School Programme provides students an opportunity to be Ambassadors for WWF-Pakistan

Opportunities to participate in several Green activities throughout the year Green Students get an edge over other students as they receive WWF-Pakistan’s

certificates Green Students obtain WWF-Pakistan’s other school oriented activities for free including:

Spellathon and ECO Internship Green Students receive privileges of WWF-Pakistan’s Individual Members including

Discounts on Panda Products and at WWF-Pakistan’s Retail Partner outlets Registered students get Green School exclusive paraphernalia including a Green Student

badge and membership card exclusively designed for Green Student







Alternate Energy

Roots School System - Peshawar Branch organised a Model Making competition on the

theme Alternate Energy. Green Students of Prep-I and Prep-II participated the model

making by using used material such as boxes, recycled paper and other items.

They have learnt that the energy sources on Earth are limited, although they can use

renewable energy sources such as solar energy, wind tides and rain but they too have

their limitations. Students have shown all their ideas in their models along with the models

showing bad effects of smoking and man’s impact on the ecosystem.

The main objective of the activity was to raise awareness about the significance of energy

and sustainable use of it. Later, the models were displayed at the Green Corner.




Natural Disaster Reduction Day (Stay Well-Stay Safe)

Peshawar, October 13, 2011: Roots School System - Peshawar Branch conducted an awareness presentation on Natural Disaster Reduction which includes:

1. Preparedness: Preparedness plan, emergency exercises, warning system.

2. Response: activities during a disaster and rescue.

3. Recovery: activities following a disaster including medical care etc

4. Mitigation: activities that reduce the effects of disaster, vulnerability analyses, public education etc.

A poster competition was held on the theme ‘Natural Disasters’, amongst the students of different levels. Students including the Green Students have also presented their posters showing “Natural Disasters.”

The best three posters were given prizes in next morning assembly. Zoya Javed of Grade IGCSE III informed all the students of Peshawar Branch about the significance of Natural Disaster Reduction Day through a presentation delivered during morning assembly.




Prevention the Exploitation of Environment in War and Armed Conflict

Peshawar, November 3, 2011: Roots School System – Peshawar Branch celebrated the “International day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War & Armed conflict”.

In the morning assembly, Zoya Javed, the Green Monitor under the supervision of GSP in-charge Ms. Salma Kanwal has presented the details & Background of this day i.e. on Nov 5, 2001, in the UN general Assembly 6 Nov of each year is declared as the above mentioned day. She also shared about the

purpose of celebrating the day as the raise awareness of the environment as innocent victim of war and the students of P-I has drawn the different picture depicting the war scenes & its effects and bookmarks as they perceive was according to them.

This awareness presentation was really another great step to enable our students to play their role not only in understanding the consequences of wars & conflicts but also how to prevent from these damages to our environment.

World Water Day 2011

Roots School System - Westridge Campus celebrated the World Water Day on March 22,

2011. Green Students gave presentation on the importance of Water resources and its

conservation in morning Assembly. The objective of the activity was to raise awareness

about the significance of water and its related biodiversity. Green Students were dresses

in blue and displaying water conservation messages.




Earth Day 2011

Earth Day is observed on April 22 every year. The theme for 2011 was ‘A Billion Acts of

Green®: Personal, organisational and corporate pledges to live and act sustainably.’ Roots

School System - Peshawar campus celebrated Earth Day in Morning Assembly. Green

Students gave presentations and presented their projects at the green corner. Messages

written by the Green Students were also displayed at the Corner.

Green Students of Roots School System - Westridge Campus presented a skit on Earth

Day on a Green Corner. The students celebrate the day as the Birthday of Mother Earth –.

One student dressed up like Earth and the other students demonstrated their love and

care by giving gifts.




Brown Bag Lunch Day

Roots School System - Abbottabad Campus

observed Brown Bag Lunch Day. The students

used brown paper and newspapers to make

these brown paper bags. The idea was to

discourage the use of the polythene bags and to

reduce waste. This activity not only helped

students in understanding the hazards of plastic

bags but is also very effective in sending a

message to parents.

Green Consumer Day: Make the Right Choice!

Green Consumer Day is celebrated on September 28 every year. This global celebration highlights the problems of consumerism and its impact on the environment. This is an area of major concern in today’s global market orientated world. We should focus primarily on awareness-raising and the importance of recycling, reusing and reducing waste material.

A green consumer is someone who is very concerned about the environment and, therefore, only purchases products that are environmentally-friendly. Products with little or no packaging, products made from natural ingredients and products that are made without causing pollution are all examples of eco-friendly products. The green consumer would be the type to drive a hybrid vehicle, buy products made from recycled materials.

Roots School System - 22 Harley Street, Rawalpindi celebrated the day by organising a Paper Bag making activity with the primary level students. The objective of the activity to raise awareness about the recycling, and reusing used papers and other materials. Green Students actively participated in the activity and presented ply cards highlight the green practices.

Roots School System - 48-A, Satellite Town, Rawalpindi organised a poster and art competitions for the students of grade two and three. The students displayed their art pieces at the Green Corner each mentioning the importance of trees and recycling.




Another 3R’s activity was organised by the Roots School System - 40-Civil Lines, Rawalpindi Branch. All the students along with the teachers and Green Students enthusiastically participated in this activity, displaying their work at the Green Corner in the school.




Save the Earth

Roots School System - 48-A, Satellite Town, Rawalpindi conducted ‘Save the Earth’ activities from November 21-26, 2011. Throughout the week students were busy showing their concern to save earth that they promised to keep forever. The week was utilised as Students made garbage bags reusing their left over tin bags with the help of their math teachers. They were given a task to put the garbage in their own made garbage bin in class for the whole week.

English and Urdu teachers kept them busy with writings of poems and stories about their thoughts of how to save the earth. Students even wrote autobiographies of tree, land and sea. Art teachers helped them make bookmarks and helped them learn recycling used material.

Science teachers did justice with their subject and helped students make bird feeders and plant their tree with a pledge to keep it healthy the whole year. A small area of garden was allocated to each class where students kept their plants with their name tags. Students added their creativity in making bird feeders.

The closing ceremony was followed by one theme based project by each class with an earth and its resources saving messages on it. Dr. Ejaz Ahmed, Deputy Director General WWF–Pakistan honored the closing ceremony with his presence. Students demonstrated their projects and presented environment based speeches and poems. He appreciated the efforts and encouraged the exposure of students to environment oriented topics at such an age.




World Wetlands Day 2012

World Wetlands Day is celebrated across the globe on

February 2 each year to mark the date of adoption of

the international Convention on Wetlands. This year,

the World Wetlands Day celebrations were themed:

‘Wetland Tourism: A Great Experience’.

The observance of this world environment day

provides an opportunity for people to educate

ourselves on the importance of wetland tourism in our

environment and on society. Wetland tourism has

benefits both locally and nationally for people and

wildlife. Wetlands provide benefits such as stronger

economies, sustainable livelihoods, healthy people

and thriving ecosystems. It reminds us that it is an

ideal time to start thinking about this precious source!

Green Students of primary, secondary and higher

secondary levels from Roots School System

competed in the Arts, Poetry, and Story writing

competitions along with different schools, colleges and universities of Islamabad,

Rawalpindi, Kharian and Jhelum. The chief guest of the event was Secretary, Ministry of

Climate Change – M. Javed Malik. Other guests included Deputy Inspector General Forest

- Abdul Munaf Kaimkhani and UNDP Environment and Energy Programme Officer Saleem

Ullah.

The opening remarks were given by Senior Director/National Programme Manager, WWF-

Pakistan – Dr. Ghulam Akbar, followed by a speech by the chief guest on the significance

of the day.

These celebrations continued throughout the two week period with a grand closure on

February 15, 2012 at the Islamabad Girls College.

Roots School System also took part in the Play performance and won the first prize in

primary category. Roots School System also won the maximum participation award in all

the categories. All the Students were awarded certificates and shields by Honorable Mr.

Imtiaz Inayat Ellahi.

The closing ceremony was attended by prominent organisations such as UNDP, Ministry

of Climate Change, Global Environment Facility, the Embassy of Kingdom of Netherlands,

and Capital Development Authority among others.







Nature Carnival 2012

Islamabad, February 26, 2012: WWF-Pakistan in collaboration with Indus Motor Company hosted the 12 Annual Travelling Nature Carnival at Fatima Jinnah Park. The Nature Carnival is an event aimed at enhancing awareness about nature conservation among students and the general public through interactive 3-D models, games and competitions. WWF-Pakistan hosted array of activities including detailed 3-D Model making Competitions, Art Competitions, Quiz Competitions, Essay Competitions, Magic Shows, Environmental Puppet Shows, Lucky Draws, live music and an environmental theatre.

Over 80 schools and 20 colleges and universities across Rawalpindi, Islamabad Nowshera, Kharian, Jhelum and Peshawar participated by constructing 3-D models and giving live presentations at the venue.

More than 100 project stalls installed on various themes such as; Habitat conservation of endangered species (Snow Leopards, Green Turtle, Dolphin), Water Conservation, Solid Waste Management: Recycle, Reuse & Reduce, Energy Conservation - Alternate Energy, Tourism Vs Eco-Tourism: Explore Wetlands of Pakistan for eco-tourism, Documentaries on Industrial pollution/Solid Waste Management and Sustainable Eco-Architecture/ Agriculture/ Climate Change, Mitigation and Adaptation/ Alternate Energy.

27 branches of Roots School System exhibited innovative models. RSS 82-A Satellite Town won First prize in category " Tourism Vs Eco-Tourism: Explore Wetlands of Pakistan for eco-tourism ", Second prize won by RSS Wah Cantt Branch and Third position also won by RSS 4-Harley Boys Branch in the same category.

RSS 76/3 Harley Branch clinched First Position in the theme "Habitat conservation of endangered species". In documentary competition Roots College International G-8 Campus won Third prize. "Best stall presentation" award was also won by RSS 77-A Satellite Town Campus.

Special discounts were given to all the Green Students and Individual Members on Panda Products sold at the Carnival.

The maximum registration award for WWF-Pakistan’s Green School Programme was also won by Roots School System for the North Region.







Say No to Plastic

WWF-Pakistan’s Green School Programme encouraged the

entire Roots School System to initiate ‘Say NO to Plastic Bags’

campaign as plastic bags are a very serious and long lasting

threat to the environment. Thematic banners were displayed on

the campus at various spots that assured the ban and

minimisation of plastic bags usage. Everyone in the Green

School including students, staff and management has banned

use of plastic bags in their Green School.

Earth Hour 2012 Green School Inauguration

Islamabad, March 26, 2012: WWF-Pakistan launched Earth Hour with the Green Schools in 2011 to celebrate a worldwide commitment to ongoing change for the betterment of the planet.

WWF-Pakistan inaugurated Earth Hour 2012 with their Official Ambassador for Earth Hour 2012, Catwalk Queen: Nadia Hussain. The event took place at Roots School System - WWF-Pakistan’s Green School with the highest registrations in the North Region of the Green School Network.

The event opened with hundreds of Green Students from WWF-Pakistan’s Green Schools including Roots School System, Beaconhouse School System, American Lycetuff and Froebels International School lit candles to set tone for the Inauguration Ceremony.

Official Ambassador for Earth Hour: Nadia Hussain walked through the sea of energetic yet obedient Green Students. Nadia was presented a bouquet by a physically disabled Green Student. Nadia continued on to the florally decorated stage. Heads of Green Schools, Sponsors of Earth Hour 2012, Official Media Partners including Geo and Radio1 FM91 accompanied the Ambassador on stage. All the participants were dressed in black, holding white candles.

The ceremony officially opened with a few Quranic verses from the Holy Quran followed by students singing the National Anthem. Earth Hour 2012’s promo featuring highlights from EH 2011 was screened for viewing by all the participants. Nadia Hussain official Ambassador for Earth Hour 2012 said a few motivational words to motivate the children: “Remind your father, mother, nano’s, dado’s and all your family to switch off unnecessary lights from 8.30-9.30pm on Saturday March 31 2012.”




Five lucky Green Students excitedly got a picture taken with the Ambassador. The ceremony closed with all the individuals from stage including: Roots School System’s Executive Director: Faisal Mushtaq, American Lycetuff School System’s Branch Head: Sadaf Saeed, CIERA’s Principal: Saadiah Humaiyun, Froebel’s International School’s Principal: Umber Tariq, WWF-Pakistan’s Senior Manager Corporate Relations: Marriyum Aurangzeb, Official Earth Hour Ambassador: Nadia Hussain led a march around the Green School campus followed by Green Students present at the Inauguration Ceremony.




Earth Hour 2012

Roots School System - G-8 Metropolitan Campus

Islamabad. March, 31, 2012: Earth Hour is a worldwide event organised by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) ), with almost 5 million supporters and a global network in over 100 countries and held on the last Saturday of March annually, encouraging households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights for one hour to raise awareness about the need to take action on climate change.

Roots College International G-8 Metropolitan Campus and 4CCI has joined hands with

WWF–Pakistan to celebrate Earth Hour 2012 under the slogan “I Will, If You will”, a simple

promise and a challenge to show love and gratitude towards Mother Earth.

The Green students actively participated in Tree plantation activity and Candle Lightening

Ceremony. An eminent and extrusive singer Uzair Jaswal, Singer and Actor, gave a

vivacious and exuberant performance for elation and delectation of the crowd. Students

express their views to show their love and gratitude towards nature. They painted their

faces with the pictures of leafs, trees, globe, flowers and pandas.

This Earth Hour, Roots College International did more than switching off their lights. Mr.

Walid Mushtaq, Executive Director-Roots School System, formally inaugurated the Earth

Hour Ceremony. Event started off by planting an assortment of plants.

Youth community club of 4CCI and Students of RCI turned off the lights for 60 minutes in a

collective display of commitment to a better future for the planet and to follow WWF’s

mission i.e. to stop the degradation of the Earth’s natural environment and build a future

where people live in harmony with nature.

Mr. Walid Mushtaq eminently accredited the gumption and vigor of WWF for holding Earth

Hour 2012 and expressed his felicitation towards WWF for holding a behemoth and

astounding event globally.

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Roots School System - 48-A Satellite Town Branch

Earth Hour is the world’s largest volunteer action to combat climate change led by WWF.

Initiated in Sydney, Australia in 2007, it has grown to become a global movement that now

involves every continent across the world. Earth Hour invites people everywhere to switch

off all unnecessary lights for one hour as a symbolic act to show their commitment to

saving the planet. On this mega event of Earth hour Green Students of Roots School

System – 48-A, Satellite Town, Rawalpindi Branch were present at the venue of G-8

Metropolitan Campus and made a pledge to work together to save our environment by

saving our resources, These Green School members have an edge over other students as

they get access to exclusive WWF events and get a chance to interact with Official WWF

Ambassadors.




Earth Day 2012

Islamabad, April 20 and 24: On Earth Day this year, WWF-Pakistan's Green School Programme (GSP) conducted a ‘Creative Article Writing’ competition titled ‘My Green Home’, ‘My Green Job’, ‘My Green Workplace’ and ‘My Green Country.’ Green Students of grade one to nine from Roots School System, Beaconhouse School System, Sheikh Zayed International Academy and Froebel’s International School participated in the competition. Students narrated their thoughts, discussed innovative and practical green ideas to save the planet in their articles.

RSS DHA-1 Campus won the First prize in the Secondary level category. RSS 77-A Satellite Town and DHA-1 won the Third prize in Primary and Higher Secondary level catagory

Earth Day, 2012 incorporated a diverse set of interactive activities which raised

environmental awareness among students.

Roots School System - 48-A Satellite Town Branch

On Earth Day, Students of grade four highlighted the issue that our planet, our home is being neglected. Climate change continues unabated. It seems there's a new ecological disaster happening almost daily. This Earth Day it's time to mobilise the planet from the ground up to send a message that the Earth won't wait!




Nature Photography Workshop

Islamabad, April 25 - May 4: WWF-

Pakistan's Green School Programme

organised in-school Nature

Photography Workshops for the

students of Green School Students of

the North region.

The objective of the workshop was to

discover and develop students' skill for

nature photography and to raise

awareness about the conservation of

natural resources. It also aimed to

educate Green Students about the importance of photography particularly nature and

wildlife photography. The workshop was conducted by Ghulam Rasool, Official nature and

wildlife photographer WWF-Pakistan.

Ghulam Rasool explained the history and use of cameras, the importance and sensitivity

of lenses, and the approach of light. The selection of right place, time and moment was

emphasized. Photography concepts including point of view, human and subjects eye level,

improvisation modes of photography and the importance of creativity in photography were

discussed.

More than 40 students of grade 8 onwards from Roots School System - Mirpur and DHA Branches attended the workshop and were awarded certificates.




Spellathon

Spellathon is WWF-Pakistan’s nation-wide spelling competition directed at awareness-

raising. Students of Roots School System branches across North region are benefiting

substantially in terms of enhancing their comprehension and vocabulary skills by

participating in the Spellathon.

Designed to take a student on a developmental voyage of scientific discovery the booklets

ease a child into understanding various segments of the environment and make them

realise their individual roles to mitigate impact on the earth. Most of the booklets focus aim

to explain that environments are integrated, overlapping and co-dependent.

The booklets were disseminated amongst the registered students of grade one to nine

who then prepare for a spelling competition while at the same time learning about the

environment. The test will be conducted in September. Non - Green students can enrol for

the Spellathon while Green Students participate free of cost.

Waste Free Lunch

Roots School System has been observing ‘Waste Free Lunch’ every Tuesday. The

students bring their lunch in reusable boxes, items which they are required to take back

home, wash and reuse. The idea is to discourage the use of the polythene and paper

bags, reducing waste and using products with minimal packaging. This activity not only

aimed at educating students, but is also very effective in sending a message to parents

regarding using items with less packaging material.




Green Corner

Roots School System – DHA Phase II, Westridge, 77-A Satellite Town, 48-A Satellite

Town, 22 Harley Street, 40 Civil Lines and Peshawar Campuses set up an interactive

space on their respective branches. The Green Corner is an interactive free zone to

express Green Views. It consists of a plain soft board at a frequently visited spot in the

Green School. Articles, news, pictures of the event and fun facts are displayed on the

board. Activity sheets and information are also provided to the students at the corner.

This innovative activity will add fun to the routine activities and will introduce sense of

freedom of speech about green challenges in the country.




Eco-Internship Programme 2012 WWF-Pakistan organised Eco-Internship Programme for the Green Students of class eight

and above. The programme is a five session workshop in which motivating, interactive and

technical sessions give students the opportunity to be affiliated with a global organisation

and create a genuine sense of civic responsibility.

Roots School System – DHA, I-9 Millennium Campus and Mirpur participated in the

programme.

RSS - DHA Campus played a vital role in the success of programme by signing a MoU

with WWF–Pakistan’s Eco-Internship Programme.

Around 150 Students participated in the programme, all of whom graduated and awarded

certificates. Alternate Energy, Biodiversity, Hazards and Disasters, Water conservation,

Environmental journalism, Nature Photography, Solid Waste Management were topics

discussed. Nature Art, Paper making activity and Nature Graffiti were some of the hands-

on activities along with discussions, group work and presentations on various issues were

part of the programme. Activities were oriented towards skill development.

The students were pro-active and innovative throughout the programme, putting forward

their ideas, and questioning without hesitation. The workshop was organised for Roots

students from June 11 - July 14, 2012.




Welcome Pack

WWF-Pakistan honored the Root School System with a Green School Shield, which is

displayed at a central location of the school.

Once the school signs an agreement with WWF-Pakistan, students enroll to become

Green Students, official Ambassadors of WWF-Pakistan. Registered Green Students are

entitled to receive: a Green Student Badge, Pioneer Green Student Certificate and a

Green School Membership Card.

Special Mention

Roots School System is the first School to sign on Green School Programme. The exclusive school system to sign on all its branches in North and Central Regions. RSS is very proactive in WWF-Pakistan’s programmes specifically the Nature Carnival, Spellathon, and has the highest registered students so far i.e., 584 during 2011-2012.

The Founder Director of the Roots School System Mrs. Riffat Mushtaq, has always been very supportive and pro-active towards the nature conservation and WWF-Pakistan’s campaigns. She has been the driving force for the many years of WWF-Pakistan’s initiatives including World Wetlands Day, Nature Carnival, Spellathon and Green School Programme.

Mr. Faisal Mushtaq - Executive Director, Roots School System has been very helpful toward the Green School Programme and other WWF-Pakistan’s awareness-raising initiatives. Green School launch could not be possible in Roots School System without the commitment, personal interest and support of Mr. Faisal.

WWF-Pakistan’s campaigns especially the Earth hour and Spellathon could not be a great success without the dedication and commitment of Mrs. Erum Atif, Regional Academic Coordinator/Manager RNITTE.

Mrs. Ambreen Salman, Manager DISCCPR has been enthusiastic not only by taking charge of the Green School activities but also by personally supervising the other WWF-Pakistan’s campaigns and activities. Due to her continuous support and encouragement the number of Green Student registration and participation in activities has increased.

Mrs. Sabina Zakir, Headmistress G-11 Campus has been very supportive towards the nature and wildlife conservation. She takes personal interest and special initiatives to initiative in-school activities under the WWF’-Pakistans Green School Programme umbrella. She has the honor to hold Earth Hour Inauguration ceremony twice in the Campus.

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