March 09, 2023

Education, Education, Education, Education, Governance, Active Citizenship, Environment, Environment

Relative to the holding of the 2003 Youth for Environment Summer (YES) Camp last April 30-May 4, 2003, one of the concrete resolutions and actions adopted by the entire delegation from all over the country is the establishment of a school-based co-curricular organization which will serve as a significant venue for students’ actions and movements toward safeguarding, protecting and conserving the environment for future generations.\r\nIn view thereof, the Department of Education (DepED), in partnership with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), establishes the Youth for Environment in Schools Organization (Yes-O) as the only recognized co-curricular environmental club or organization in the schools and consolidates all other environmental and/or ecology clubs or organizations in school with main and primary programs or projects for the environment or ecology in the said Organization.\r\n\r\nThe Youth for Environment in Schools (YES) Organization shall have the following objectives:\r\n1. Be aware and create awareness in others of the state of the Philippine environment and ecology, including prevailing issues and concerns relative thereto;\r\n2. Establish specific and doable programs, projects and activities to address issues and concerns on the environment and ecology;\r\n3. Network with other government and non-government organizations, including Youth for Environment in Schools (YES) Organizations in other schools within the division and region, with regard to support and assistance to programs, projects and activities of the organization;\r\n4. Encourage community participation and initiative in environmental and ecological movements and actions; and\r\n5. Develop among members and the community proper environmental values, skills and attitudes\r\n