School gets a visit from local green beauty
Miss Earth SA regional finalist Paballo Makupu, from Castleview, recently visited Colin Mann Primary.
Castleview’s Miss Earth SA regional finalist, Paballo Makupu, has been hard at work educating children about the environment.
She recently visited the pupils at Colin Mann Primary School, to help them plant a tree and to give them tips on how they can help to save the world.
“The programme started with the well-behaved Grades One to Three classes and included topics like ‘What is climate change?’ and ‘How it affects them,’” said Paballo.
“The children were very interested in learning what they could do to prevent droughts, veld fires and prevent global warming.
“The solution I presented to them is to reduce waste, reuse water and recycle.”
Paballo then spoke to the pupils in the Grades Four to Seven classes and left them with a number of challenges.
“I asked them to participate in Meat Free Mondays, to plant trees and, for the month of July, to try not to use anything made of plastic, for example, plastic bags, water bottles or straws,” she said.
The day was rounded off with the planting of an indigenous tree – the Karee tree, which uses less water.
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