April 22, 2024

Health, Active Citizenship, Environment

Youth for Environment in schools organization (YES-O) is a student’s organization program in which the environment is the major concern to wake the awareness and initiative of the students to develop and help treat the further damage of the environment. It has been a program to promote the awareness of the condition of the environment. Its purpose does not only focus at the environment itself but also as said, to inculcate the sense of awareness and initiative of improving the current situation of the environment. In this program the youth is ushered to their own individual ways of cleaning and improving their surroundings. The youth under this program has been given basic methods and of enjoying activities to have a strong unity within and without the youth itself thus, promotes empowerment towards every individual. A voluntary membership of students molds YES-O of a school. Cleaning the area inside and outside the campus is one of the activities that the YES-O has made a role. The threat of Global Warming (an increase in the average temperature of the atmosphere, oceans, and landmasses of earth) and pollution is overwhelming and if not given attention it would lead to the destruction of the environment totally that resides health-risk to the people. This students’ organization enhances the social interaction of every individual particularly towards the students. The students are not only prompted and developed with the different activities and cleaning actions but also the students’ organization helps promote or inculcates the essence of unity on every individual under the program of the said organization. OBJECTIVES: The YES-O of Buringal National High School has different approaches for the implementation to help the environment through the youth. It has the following proposes for which such association is incorporated are: 1. Be aware and create awareness in others of the state of the Philippine environment and ecology, including prevailing issues and concerns relative thereto; 2. Establish specific and doable programs; projects and activities to address issues and concerns on the environment and ecology; 3. Network with other government and non-government organizations, in other schools or within the division and region, with regard to support and assistance to the programs, projects and activities of the organizations;