Eco Club

|Eco Schools: An International Initiative for a Sustainable Environment |
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|Eco-Schools is an international programme for environmental education, management and certification that aims to raise students’ awareness on sustainable development issues |
|through classroom study as well as school and community action. It employs a holistic, participatory approach in which students play an active role in running their school for |
|the benefit of the environment. Eco-school certification is the Green Flag, an internationally acknowledged symbol for environmental excellence. |
|Eco-Schools is a programme of “Foundation for Environmental Education” (FEE), an international organization, which has member organizations in 61 countries, including UAE. In |
|UAE, it is represented by EWS-WWF. |
|About 60 schools across UAE have registered as Eco-Schools. On 20th May 2012, five schools viz. Raffles International, Greenwood International School, Dubai International |
|Academy, Adhen Basic Cycle School for Girls, Ras Al Khaimah, Al Hala Basic Cycle School for Boys, Fujairah, received the Green Flag. |
|DPS Sharjah registered as the 30th member in November 2011. Various events have already been organized by WWF-EWS e.g. Turtle Competition, Earth Hour, Beati Watani Quiz, |
|Migratory Birds day, Biodiversity day,World Action Day, in which students participated enthusiastically. All these form a part of Eco-Schools activities which we have