Meanwhile, the participating students have started working on the proposed projects to be completed and reported on their results before the end of the current school year. The company has set aside a special budget to finance a number of environmental researches and projects to be selected by the secretariat that includes representatives of ministry, GPIC and a number of environmental specialists.
The Secretariat has received 85 projects from all schools. GPIC general manager Abdul Rahman Jawahery congratulated the winning students and praised their good selection of the proposed projects.
He also thanked ministry officials, led by Education Minister Dr Majid Al Nuaimi, for their support to the company’s environmental programmes. The selected proje?ts cover four main environmental topics include management of domestic waste, water and power supply, recycling and re-use, and protection of marine life and wildlife.
Such topics have been chosen primarily for their significances to the Bahrain environment and secondly due to their close relationship with the daily lives of the targeted group of students, said GPIC maintenance manager and environment committee chairman Fadhel Al Ansari. Such topics allow the students’ creative abilities to be demonstrated and enable them to have broader understanding of the details of such environmental problems, he added.