The Environmental Education Center / Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, in cooperation with the Environmental Quality Authority, concluded 3 practical training workshops on plastic, paper and cloth recycling skills for eight women and youth forums from the governorates of Jenin, Tubas, the northern Jordan Valley, Tulkarm, Ramallah and Al-Bireh.
The trainers, Ayman Abd Rabbo from the Environmental Quality Authority, engineer Samah Habaybeh, and designer Aisha Odeh, provided training on making artistic masterpieces, accessories, kitchen utensils, bags, and jewelry from plastic materials, paper, and cloth for sixty women and students from the following forums: Marj Ibn Amer in Jenin, Anabta in Tulkarm, Narjis, and Al-Fara’a. And Iris in Tubas and the northern Jordan Valley, and Beitunia in Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate, and Khadouri at Palestine Technical University in Tulkarem, and Narges, which emerged from Al-Quds Open University in Tubas branch, and Nada for joint environmental media with the Arab American University and the Ministry of Information in Jenin.
The workshops were held at the Hamdi Manko Center of the Nablus Municipality, during which the women and students produced dozens of pieces of art and household tools from materials that would otherwise go to waste.
Executive Director of Environmental Education, Simon Awad, explained that the three workshops come on the sidelines of World Cleanup Day, and shortly before Arab Environment Day, and seek to search for practical solutions to the solid waste challenge.
Since its establishment in 2014, the women and youth forums have implemented dozens of activities, workshops, lectures, green walks, media meetings, dialogues with mayors and governors, cleaning campaigns, tree planting, volunteering, and participation in the Palestinian Environment Day, national weeks for bird watching and recording, and exploring natural reserves.
Awad thanked the Nablus Municipality for hosting the training, and praised the universities, associations, partner institutions, trainers and volunteers, who provided several motivational models to protect the environment from the chaos of waste, pollution, neglect and lack of responsibility.
Trainer Abd Rabbo pointed out that these activities encourage women and students to adopt environmentally friendly practices and contribute to putting an end to random waste.
The Director of Environmental Quality in Nablus, Engineer Abdel Moneim Shehab, confirmed that the waste challenge is doubling in Palestine, and requires the implementation of creative ideas and initiatives that maintain a green, clean and healthy environment.
Beitunia Forum Coordinator Najah Harish said that the outcomes of the workshops encourage their dissemination in all locations, and complement the forums’ plans for environmental awareness and skills development.
Participants from the university forums opened a dialogue with Engineer Shehab about the most serious environmental challenges in Palestine, ways to solve them, and the necessary means to protect biodiversity
Source: Maan News Agency