“Global challenges – local actions”

Update: 25/02/2009
Fourteen pupils from Soc Trang province present their experience with environmental challenges during the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) natural resources and rural development sector network meeting in Ho Chi Minh City.
A meeting with the theme “global challenges - local actions: climate change bio-energy and food security” is being organized in Ho Chi Minh City from February 23-26, 2009 which will bring together more than 100 technical advisors from GTZ and partner institutions working on rural development issues in Asia.

The GTZ project “Management of natural resources in the coastal zones of Soc Trang province” has been working together with the Provincial People’s Committee and the Forest Protection Sub-department since 2007. A drawing competition for pupils about environmental protection and protection of natural resources was organised together with the People’s Committees of Vinh Chau, Long Phu and Cu Lao Dung district. Out of 3,383 entries 14 drawings were chosen to be made into a calendar for 2009. As part of the GTZ meeting in Ho Chi Minh City an exhibition of these drawings was held on Monday 23 Feb. 2009.

A three-day trip to Ho Chi Minh City from February 22 has been organized for the 14 pupils to award their efforts. They will take part in cultural activities and join the picture exhibition at the opening night of the sector network meeting. Their drawings, together with presentations from three pupils, will express local perspectives to a global challenge of coastal zone protection to an international audience.

GTZ is an international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations and has been working with its partners in Vietnam since 1993.
Source: CPV