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Raising awareness and educating children as early as possible on environmental issues has become a priority shared by many in the teaching profession.
The teaching aids developed for this international awareness raising operation are an integral part of this educational objective.
The goal of the teaching aids is to help children understand the links between health and the environment accordingly.
The material emphasizes a number of points: human activities significantly impact the environment: damage to soil, air and water quality affects human health; the more human activities damage the environment, the more the environment generates health problems.
Children's health is particularly susceptible to the quality of their water, air, food and housing and the cleanliness of the places where they live, learn and play. People need to understand this cause and effect relationship of the way we use our environment.
The outcome is thrown back at us like a boomerang.
Children are directly affected by the deterioration of the environment (illnesses such as diarrhoea, bronchitis, etc.) and can easily understand the link that exists between pollution and health.
This is why we need to make them aware very early of the ways they can help to protect the environment and preserve health. In this way we can help them develop a longlasting responsible behaviour.
Healthy children will become strong, healthy adults. Creating healthy environmental conditions provides long-term advantages for society as a whole (less demand on health and social services, greater productivity).
This operation aims to raise awareness, share ideas, stimulate debate and encourage observation, thoughts and analysis on our immediate environment.
It also highlights the international scope of the issues.
This operation aims to raise awareness, share ideas, stimulate debate and encourage observation, thoughts and analysis.
