Delbrück
Delbrück successfully announced the end of it's third ZOOM campaign in 2021!
7,017 miles were collected by 410 children from eight institutions in 14 groups, of which 5,134 are Green Miles, 1,087 Blue Miles and 796 Red Miles. The Kindergarten “Adventureland”, “Kunterbunt”, "Ostenland", "Steinhorst", "Schöning" and "Sudhagen", the Family Center "Westenholz" and the Elementary School "Ostenland" were engaged in the campaign. The children installed a rain barrel to decrease their water consumption and made a worm box to be able to compost inside.
The city of Delbrück was particularly pleased to announce that they were supported by a sponsor, the company Happe, with 30 cents per mile. In the end there were €2,105 which could be contributed to the “Corona Fund for Indigenous Peoples” of the Climate Alliance. The children installed a rain barrel to decrease their water consumption and made a worm box to be able to compost inside.
Herdecke
This year, environmental protection was a big topic at the Werner Richard School in Herdecke. Here, 185 children not only collected Green, Red and Blue Footprints. Also the hole school solved projects in terms of environmental protection. At the end of the campaign, they collected 1,333 Green, 314, Red and 431 Blue Footprints. In total, Herdecke will send 2,078 Footprints to Glasgow.
The children made seed bombs and distributed them in the area around the school to help nature. Butterflies, bees and many other insects will now be able to find better shelter and food. Thank you for this great comittment! In addition, the students were involved in thrash collection campaings at the school and along the river Ruhr. Furthermore, through a trip to the forest they lernt to appreciate their environment even more.
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Solingen
In Solingen, children from 21 daycare centers and 13 elemntary schools participated once again at the Kid's on the Move campaign. For the eighteenth time children from Solingen collected Green Footprints.
This year, they achieved a new record:
3,955 Children
34,515 Green Footprints
6,114 Additional Green Footprints
This year's Kid's on the Move campaign was accompanied by other climate-friendly activities which passed every class or group:
• walks in the district
• draw a children's city map
• the parents had to walk with the children
• the preschool children ask themselfes if there are able to walk to school
• hikes and walks in the forest
• bike training and bike tours
• audio walk
Every particapting class and group received a certificate and pencils or a "blinki" (a device for better road safety).
For the first time there was also a painting competition. The winners were rewarded with Green Footprint gym bags filled with fair chocolate.
The AWO daycare center Scheidter Feld documented their participation in a special manner. With a lot of joy and commitment, the children collected 311 Green Footprints. They looked at different ways of getting to kindergarten and came up with alternatives to the car. They also looked into the topics of nutrition. For example, there were now more vergetarian meals at the daycare center.
"We keep our enviroment clean", was a motto of the children. So they started a trash collection campaign and talked about proper garbage seperation. The children were able to show what they alraedy knew and exchange tips with each other. They also discussed the topic of electronic waste.
In order to teach the children that things can be reused and repaired, the children painted old white t-shirts.
One of the highlight of the campaign was an excursion to the waste-to-energy plant in Langenfeld, which the children reached togehter by bus. There, they were able to see how the garbage trucks deposit the garbage and how it is then prepared for further processing. The children were also allowed to sit in a garbage truck. What a great excursion!
Here you will find links to the more detailed reports (week 1) Woche1, (week 2) Woche2, (week 3) Woche3 und dem (excursion) Ausflug
Click here and you will find some further information about the northrhine-westphalian results in german.