Kohima, May 18 (MExN): The Nagaland Institute of Health, Environment & Social Welfare (NIHESW), Kohima in collaboration with multinational IT corporation WIPRO, Bangalore organized two workshops entitled ‘Seasonwatch’ and ‘Earthian 2016’ in Kohima on May16 and 17 respectively.
‘Seasonwatch’ was conducted for school children in their respective schools, while the ‘Earthian 2016’ was held for teachers at the Zonal Council Hall, a press release informed. The resource person was Ashish Shah, Program Manager (Seasonwatch) and Associate of the Earthian Awards program of WIPRO.
According to the release, the vision of WIPRO Earthian is to find solutions to several sustainability issues like climate change, water scarcity, loss of biodiversity, etc. The Earthian project aims at building skills, attitudes and values to shape a sustainable future. The core objectives are integrating sustainability education into school and college curriculums and to critically engage students with sustainability issues through multiple perspectives. The teachers who attended the workshop will play a pivotal role in inspiring, motivating and supervising students in their schools to work and prepare project reports on ‘Sustainability & Water’ and ‘Sustainability & Biodiversity’, the release stated.
The submissions will be judged based on a broad approach as deemed appropriate by the jury. This will be based on how genuinely the activity was done, the comprehensiveness and creativity in documenting the activities, the ability in seeing and drawing the broader connections well. WIPRO has constituted trophy, citation and cash awards for the ten best projects from all over the country, it added.
