Environmental policy and administrative management

ABES Teacher Empowerment Centre will publish its quarterly magazine School Dost as the project activity. School Dost is published in Urdu language. The basic purpose of its publications is to aware teacher, communities, parents, official, NGOs and other stakeholders focusing issues of Quality Education, Clean Environment and Peace. It specially emphases on the roles and responsibilities of the readers and to adapt constructive behaviors and attitudes for a positive change in the society. It provides the readers with innovative ideas, latest information and updates, concerns about various aspects of the focused issues, work plans, strategies and guidelines through a variety of research articles, reports, interviews, success stories, case studies, views and comments, motivational stories and analects selected by the readers. It involves its readers to contribute in the contents of each periodical to make it more live, interesting and meaningful. Each reader has something to extract and use according to his/her need. It is comprised of 24 pages (16 single colored and 8 four colored) with fine mat paper and a beautiful covering page. The designing and composition of different layouts is one of the prominent aspects of this publication to make it more attractive and interesting for the common readers. Primary Objectives: - Creating awareness among communities, educators, schools and children to promote constructive behaviors and attitudes regarding the environment, quality education and peace to bring a positive change within the society. - Informing teachers, parents, communities and people involves in the process of education of their roles and responsibilities to ensure quality education and a healthy change within the schools. - Helping people to understand the deep meanings of love, peace, kindness, forgiveness, faith, respect, patience, hope, gratitude and similar kind of qualities that in fact bear inner peace. - Promoting caring aptitude for the environment among educators, children, parents and communities through providing guidelines and remedial solutions of the environmental issues. Description of the proposed activity ABES teacher Empowerment Centre publishes its quarterly magazine School Dost specifically for the promotion of quality education, clean environment and peace. The basic purpose it to aware the communities, educators and people involved in the process of education as well as to bring a positive change. But the most basic and specific goal of this proposed activity is to aware people of the environmental concerns, updates and inform them about the present situations and problems of the environment in order to bring a positive change within the minds and attitudes of the people. i) Environmental concerns and initiative The vision for advocating and promoting environmental issues among children, teacher and communities through the School Dost, is to bring about a positive change. It focus to improve their civic sense and providing ways to reduce the concerns about healthy environment as well as to facilitate them in adapting such practices that will contribute towards a better and safe healthy environment. There are several burning issues regarding environment such as, use of unhygienic drinking water, increase in global warming, ozone depletion, bio-diversity, deforestation, use of pesticides and its effects, solid wastes management, increase in water, air and noise pollution, acid rain, social erosion, desertification, industrial emissions and effluents in particular. The importance of these issues demands more emphasis on educating and providing awareness about the usage of clean drinking water through (disinfectants, boiling, filtration etc), solid waste management, environmental importance of plantation. Use of natural fertilizations, bio-diversity etc. The information provided in the magazine covers many types of aspects of the environmental issues that can affect in different ways of learning process and motivate the readers to adapt constructive behaviors for their environment. The information alternatively enhances a positive change in the minds of the readers to take necessary initiatives for the betterment of environment. These issues are directly linked with the daily life of urban/rural communities and those who are in contact with ABES. Through providing them information on above-mentioned issues will directly affect them and will cause a positive impact on their health as well as increase in their life span. ii) Global Environmental Concerns During the last five to ten years the environmental scenarios have captured the attention of societies and Governments to make such necessary actions that may save human life on the earth. On the other hand, for the first time in the history of man, not because of the impact of nuclear weapons, but due to the lack of control in production, we may destroy all on this planet. We have moved from the production mode into destruction mode and from this moment hence we will have to constantly face the permanent challenges of reconstructing the planet. The classical paradigms that have guided the production and reproduction in the planet so far have placed at risk not only the life of human beings, but all existing life forms on the earth as well. In view of that, ABES has participated in joining hands with the national environmental mandate and have started incorporating issues in this magazine based on the facts about our national a

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