We run environmental education for school and college students across Bangladesh. The programme introduces young people to the systems they depend on every day — air, water, soil and green cover — and to the ordinary choices that either protect or damage them. Our aim is not to add another subject to an already full syllabus, but to give students a practical understanding they can act on at school, at home and in their own neighbourhood.
Sessions are held on campus and are built around participation rather than lecture. Short classroom modules are paired with hands-on work: sorting and reducing waste, cleaning up the campus and the area around it, planting trees and caring for them afterwards, observing local water and air conditions directly, and discussing what students notice. Where an institution is willing, we help students form a green club so the work continues after our team has finished, and we orient teachers so the effort does not depend on outside facilitators. Our materials are prepared in Bangla and pitched to the age group in front of us.
This matters because the pressures Bangladesh faces are not distant ones. Rivers carry industrial and household waste, brick kilns and traffic thicken the air of growing towns, groundwater in many areas carries arsenic, and plastic collects in drains and fields. Students are often the members of a household most willing to question an old habit and change it, and what they learn travels home with them.
Any school or college in the country may take part. Students, teachers, guardians and volunteers are welcome to contact us about bringing the programme to their institution, and we shape the length and depth of each session around the time a school can give.