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The Sharon Environmental Avengers following the installation.

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Principal of Sharon Primary School, Pamela Small-Williams.

Sharon Environmental Avengers Club launched

A select group of students at the Sharon Primary School in St. Thomas, have been dubbed the Sharon Environmental Avengers and their job is to lead by example, in ensuring that the environment there is kept litter-free and is indeed pleasing to the eye.

During the installation ceremony held recently at the school, Principal Pamela Small-Williams noted that the environmental initiative started with an idea from three seven to eight-year-old boys.

“On Thursday November 2017, three boys, Jeighon Williams, Razario Connell and Jared Padmore expressed their desire to commence a litter-free campaign at the school.

After permission was obtained from their parents, nothing seemed more attractive to the boys after lunch, than their goal – a litter-free environment. Today, this has evolved into an Environmental Avengers Club, with Miss Maxine Walker as the coordinator,” the principal explained.

“While the benefits of creating and maintaining a healthy school environment must be understood, the reality of children at the tender ages of seven to nine who understand the importance of a sustainable hygienic environment and are motivated to organise themselves to assist in such a tangible way, is quite remarkable,” she added.

During the installation ceremony, the boys and girls in the Club received their certificates from Minister of the Environment and National Beautification, Trevor Prescod as Minister of People Empowerment and Elder Affairs, Cynthia Forde, who serves as the Parliamentary Representative for St. Thomas, looked on in support.

Minister Prescod stressed that he is depending on the Sharon Environmental Avengers and youth in general in schools to spread the word about the need to better take care of the environmental, so that the adults can catch on.

“What you are doing here is creating a new culture, not only at the schools, but a culture that you will take through the physical environment in which you reside and you can start to influence your parents, your neighbours, other children in the community, because what we want to do ultimately, is to have the cleanest and the most beautiful country in the Caribbean – coming out of Barbados – and you are the [pioneers] who will take the initiative in doing that,” he stated.

“I want you to help me to do that, because if it is not done, I will have to bring strict legislation, because people must learn how important hygiene is, having these sanitary conditions around us,” the Minister further commented. (RSM)

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