By Paul Anu
The Little Angels of Cameroon, an environmental students’ club, rounded up the year 2013 with a week of activities in Yaounde.
The activities which took place from 5 to 12 December 2013 involved tree planting, cleaning, drama staging on CRTV and at the Refuge Bilingual High School Carriere campus. The Little Angels also carried out sensitization campaigns to draw the attention of other students on the importance of environmental conservation and protection.
Highlights of the activities included competition between members of the Little Angels clubs which saw the best emerging with many prizes to encourage their participation.
Each year environmental club students showcase their knowledge and talents with the aim of attracting new members into the club.
The Little Angels of Cameroon environmental club was created in 2005 and its works in collaboration with the Child Earth Institution based in the US with intention to use advocacy as a means of fostering environmental education and awareness amongst the youths.
They used the same software package to facilitate classroom exchanges and interactive learning of environmental issues.
The club is found in the ten regions of Cameroon.
Little Angels of Cameroon founding President and Coordinator, Precilia Song, said the only way environmental sustainability could be attained is by bringing up environmental students. She said environmental awareness is an indispensable tool to curb the effects of climate change, deforestation, land degradation and enhance sustainable harvesting of plants and animals for other generations.
Song said everyone needs to be abreast with environmental messages and be part of all efforts to protect our environment.
To the Principal of Refuge Bilingual High School Carriere and Coordinator of Little Angels club in his school, Wendoh Gilbert Yungho, said the club is the most interesting and it is attracting many students from forms one to upper sixth.
He said he was pleased with the output of many club members and the excitement with which they participate in the different activities.
Some students who have been members of Little Angels club for the past four years acknowledged that they have learnt a lot since joining the club.
They said the knowledge is helping them to participate in environmental protection locally, and added that their friends have also joined the club to enjoy some of the privileges like attending international conferences, traveling for field trip studies and carrying out practical field work like tree planting and cleaning different parts of the city.
They admit applying the knowledge locally even at home in terms of water management.
Little Angels environmental club has as mission to integrate youths in the country in all activities of environmental management and the fight against all ills that compromise environmental sustainability.
The target is to see all schools in Cameroon set up environmental clubs to help create awareness in their different environments.
