CAMGEW ENGAGES IN Environmental Education With Community Children
- Creates Child Friendly and Safe Space CAMGEW has engaged itself in Environmental Education with Kilum Ijim Forest Community children on Bushfires, causes of Bushfires, consequences and tools used in Preventing and Managing Bushfires. This took place in Oku on the 17 th of December 2021. This activity took place with 26 community children made up of 10 boys and 16 girls. It was an interactive program in which children identified the causes of Bushfires like smoking in and around the forest, burning of farms like the slash-and-burn method of farming, the burning of bushes to hunt animals, burning by grazers to get new vegetation for animals and poor methods of harvesting honey by untrained bee Farmers. The children were made to understand that Bushfires can result in the burning of trees, hives, fruits, vegetables, animals which are all found in the forest. Some of the consequences of Bushfires were identified together with the children. The children were shown some