走入校园设立环保教育展 师生共度绿色中秋节
【林志华、黄嘉慧/ 新加坡报导】
2010年9月24日晚上，新加坡慈济志工应中华中学的邀请，在学校的中秋节晚会上，设立环保教育展，为中秋添上绿色环保气息，让学生们过一个不一样的中秋节。
中华中学是慈济新芽助学金计划的参与学校，该校行政副校长Mr. Samuel Tso Hung Tim对慈济有所听闻，特意邀请慈济志工在该校晚会上，利用学校食堂的一角，设立环保教育展，向师生宣导环保资源回收的意义，也从慈济人的身体力行中，认识落实环保资源回收并不难。
志工把握这个机会，向师生们宣导即将在11月14日开跑的实龙岗环保点，邀请他们前来参与社区环保资源回收，同为美好家园出一份力。
慈济环保教育展设立在学校食堂的一个显眼的角落，有看板区、大爱感恩科技产品展示、分类示范区、静思人文区等。校方让志工在校内广播，也邀请志工到校友联谊会中宣导慈济环保教育展。因此，当晚中秋庆祝文娱表演后，师生们络绎不绝涌入环保教育展参访。
回收70个宝特瓶，可以制成赈灾毛毯；环保碗筷和杯，是慈济人出门必备的‘三宝’，让师生们啧啧称奇。带来三十位同学来浏览环保教育展的谭建富（OttoTham）老师，在志工的导览下，参观了大爱感恩科技区，亲手触摸用宝特瓶制成的毛毯，赞叹不已。
“真是让我们增广见闻，学到了很多东西，有意义。没想到装汽水的塑料瓶，可以用来做成棉被。”
“原来家里的许多垃圾，都是可以回收的资源，平日都不知道。”陈秀英老师看到分类区内的资源，有感而发地说。对慈济有所听闻，今天第一次与慈济志工近距离接触，陈老师就表示要加入这个团体。
学校有一台宝特瓶与铝罐压缩机，校方为了鼓励学生使用，就以换取文具如橡皮擦、铅笔、原子笔等等来奖赏，然而效果未见理想。校方因此希望透过慈济的环保教育展，让学生对环保有进一步的认识，并充分利用这台机。
压缩机也搬到了教育展来，负责操作的是中三学生邱佳韵。她尽忠职守地站在压缩机前，向同学们讲解与示范压缩机的用法。
“环保是很有趣的学问，很多细节是别的同学不知道的。好比说回收一个汽水罐，你就可以省下相等于三个钟头看电视的电力。”佳韵同学有感而发地说。
从小受到外婆的影响，她也会回收家里的瓶瓶罐罐。自去年参加环保比赛后，对环保有了更深的认识。每天午休时间她都自发地承担了操作这台压缩机的工作，也成了负责学校环保的霍家燕老师眼中的环保小尖兵。
另一位住在盛港的许明仪同学，是学校环保团体的成员，曾在社区内看见蓝天白云志工做环保的身影而留下印象。当她听志工解说，使用免洗筷对环境与健康的破坏后，感到惊讶。
“我觉得环保是很重要的，我们必须尽我们的责任来保护地球。”尽管身边一些同学不太关心环保的课题，她仍会继续努力参与环保活动，并决定以后不再用免洗筷了。
晚会中，除了环保教育展的宣导，一组慈济志工手拿着夹子和垃圾袋，做‘垃圾不落地’的示范，将校园内的垃圾捡起，更向同学们宣导随时将垃圾分类的好习惯。
身为环保导师的霍家燕老师一直很希望可以带动学生们积极做环保，当她看见慈济志工在校园内弯腰捡垃圾的画面，深深被感动了。
“看到你们到处走，捡起学校的垃圾，我希望学生看到后会有所感动，并自动自发地维护校园的整洁。”
中秋节庆结合绿色环保，让今年的中秋节更添意义。希望聚众之力减缓大地再受毁伤，让今后中秋夜空上的一轮明月清辉不减，年年岁岁，岁岁年年。
Celebrating a Green Mid-Autumn Festival with Zhong Hua Secondary
Translated by Chua Teong Seng
Zhong Hua Secondary School is one of the secondary schools participating in Tzu Chi's “Seeds of Hope” Bursary Programme. Mr Samuel Tso Hung Tim, the administration vice principal of the school, had heard of Tzu Chi before and it was Mr Samuel who invited Tzu Chi volunteers to set up an eco-awareness exhibition at the party to promote the significance of recycling to the school community.
The volunteers had the school’s permission to propagate the exhibition through the broadcasting system prior the event and were even invited to the Alumni meeting to make announcement. The publicity paid off with teachers and students flocking to the exhibition after enjoying the cultural performances at the Mid-Autumn Festival party.
Situated at a prominent corner in the school canteen, the exhibition offered billboards explanation, recycling demonstration, Da Ai Technology creation showcase, and display of Tzu Chi’s Jing Si eco-friendly products.
Making lasting product out of ‘garbage’
The teachers and students were particularly amazed with the eco-blanket developed by Da Ai Technology Co. Ltd., a company established and ran in Taiwan by five Tzu Chi entrepreneurs with profits channeled to Tzu Chi’s charitable work, using 70 recycled plastic bottles.
The plastic bottles were collected in Tzu Chi’s recycling points across Taiwan, where recycling volunteers wash, de-cap, de-ring, flatten, bag, and send them to factories to be shredded, rinsed, and made into polyester resin. This is then spun into yarn and woven into cloth from which light, soft, warm blankets are made. The blankets are often distributed along with food and medical supplies to the needy during Tzu Chi’s aid missions.
The teachers and students also marveled at the reusable lunchboxes, chopsticks and cups – known as the “three treasures” that Tzu Chi volunteers bring with them when dining out.
Mr Otto Tham, the Class 1E3 form teacher who’s on guided tour at the exhibition with his 30 students, was seen touching the eco-blanket to feel its texture. “This is really an eye-opener,” he praised. “It’s amazing that pop bottles can be transformed into quilts. We really learned a lot today.”
“I didn’t know that so much garbage can actually be recycled," commented relief teacher Chen Xiu Ying after seeing the sorted items at the recycling demonstration area. Ms Chen had heard about Tzu Chi before and, after her first contact with the Tzu Chi volunteers that day, she immediately expressed the interest to join their ranks.
To the volunteers’ surprise, the school has a ‘reverse vending machine’ that can compress plastic bottles and aluminium cans for recycling. To encourage usage, the school gives away stationery as rewards but the result was barely satisfactory. The school hopes that through Tzu Chi's eco-awareness exhibition, its students would better understand the importance of environmental conservation, and starts to make use of the machine.
Secondary three student Khoo Jia Yun was responsible for operating the ‘reverse vending machine’ which was specially shifted to the exhibition area that night. Jia Yun stood dutifully in front of it and explained and demonstrated to her fellow schoolmates the method to use the equipment.
She thinks that environmental conservation is actually a very interesting topic and it’s a pity that many people are not aware of fun facts like recycling an aluminium can could save enough energy to run a TV for three hours.
Influenced by her grandmother, Jia Yun had started recycling bottles and cans at home at a very young age. Having gained a deeper understanding of environmental issues after participating in an environmental competition last year, Jia Yun volunteered to take up the role of operating the ‘reverse vending machine’ during lunch recesses. In the eyes of Fok Kar Yin, the teacher in-charge of Zhong Hua Sec’s environmental initiatives, Jia Yun is a “young vanguard of the environment” in the school.
Action speaks louder than words
Shirlin Koh Ming Yi, who lives in Sengkang, is a member of the school's environmental club, The Green Committee. She has seen Tzu Chi volunteers doing recycling work in her community before and was surprised to learn at the exhibition that the use of disposable chopsticks would damage the environment and one's health (for disposable chopsticks are made by clear cutting forests for the wood, causing irreparable harm to the environment, and the residues of sulfur dioxide used to bleach the chopsticks also pose health risk.)
“Environmental protection is a pressing issue now. We must do our part to protect the Earth,” said Ming Yi. Although there is a lack of concern among her classmates, Ming Yi is determined to be committed in environmental undertakings and has even decided to stop using disposable chopsticks.
In addition to holding the exhibition, the Tzu Chi volunteers also made it a point to carry out a “litter-free mission” around the school with tongs and garbage bags, which has attracted some attention.
Ms Fok Kar Yin was deeply moved when she saw the volunteers bending down to pick up litter around the school compound. The teacher in-charge has always hoped to lead the students to do more on environmental protection.
“With all of you going around to pick up litter in our school, I hope the students will be moved and start to maintain cleanliness voluntarily,” she said.
Celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival with a touch of “green flavour” at Zhong Hua Secondary had made this year's festival even more meaningful. By rallying everyone's effort to reduce the damage to the Earth, we hope the moon will continue to shine brightly in the Mid-Autumn night sky, year after year.
【林志华、黄嘉慧/ 新加坡报导】
2010年9月24日晚上，新加坡慈济志工应中华中学的邀请，在学校的中秋节晚会上，设立环保教育展，为中秋添上绿色环保气息，让学生们过一个不一样的中秋节。
中华中学是慈济新芽助学金计划的参与学校，该校行政副校长Mr. Samuel Tso Hung Tim对慈济有所听闻，特意邀请慈济志工在该校晚会上，利用学校食堂的一角，设立环保教育展，向师生宣导环保资源回收的意义，也从慈济人的身体力行中，认识落实环保资源回收并不难。
志工把握这个机会，向师生们宣导即将在11月14日开跑的实龙岗环保点，邀请他们前来参与社区环保资源回收，同为美好家园出一份力。
慈济环保教育展设立在学校食堂的一个显眼的角落，有看板区、大爱感恩科技产品展示、分类示范区、静思人文区等。校方让志工在校内广播，也邀请志工到校友联谊会中宣导慈济环保教育展。因此，当晚中秋庆祝文娱表演后，师生们络绎不绝涌入环保教育展参访。
回收70个宝特瓶，可以制成赈灾毛毯；环保碗筷和杯，是慈济人出门必备的‘三宝’，让师生们啧啧称奇。带来三十位同学来浏览环保教育展的谭建富（OttoTham）老师，在志工的导览下，参观了大爱感恩科技区，亲手触摸用宝特瓶制成的毛毯，赞叹不已。
“真是让我们增广见闻，学到了很多东西，有意义。没想到装汽水的塑料瓶，可以用来做成棉被。”
“原来家里的许多垃圾，都是可以回收的资源，平日都不知道。”陈秀英老师看到分类区内的资源，有感而发地说。对慈济有所听闻，今天第一次与慈济志工近距离接触，陈老师就表示要加入这个团体。
学校有一台宝特瓶与铝罐压缩机，校方为了鼓励学生使用，就以换取文具如橡皮擦、铅笔、原子笔等等来奖赏，然而效果未见理想。校方因此希望透过慈济的环保教育展，让学生对环保有进一步的认识，并充分利用这台机。
压缩机也搬到了教育展来，负责操作的是中三学生邱佳韵。她尽忠职守地站在压缩机前，向同学们讲解与示范压缩机的用法。
“环保是很有趣的学问，很多细节是别的同学不知道的。好比说回收一个汽水罐，你就可以省下相等于三个钟头看电视的电力。”佳韵同学有感而发地说。
从小受到外婆的影响，她也会回收家里的瓶瓶罐罐。自去年参加环保比赛后，对环保有了更深的认识。每天午休时间她都自发地承担了操作这台压缩机的工作，也成了负责学校环保的霍家燕老师眼中的环保小尖兵。
另一位住在盛港的许明仪同学，是学校环保团体的成员，曾在社区内看见蓝天白云志工做环保的身影而留下印象。当她听志工解说，使用免洗筷对环境与健康的破坏后，感到惊讶。
“我觉得环保是很重要的，我们必须尽我们的责任来保护地球。”尽管身边一些同学不太关心环保的课题，她仍会继续努力参与环保活动，并决定以后不再用免洗筷了。
晚会中，除了环保教育展的宣导，一组慈济志工手拿着夹子和垃圾袋，做‘垃圾不落地’的示范，将校园内的垃圾捡起，更向同学们宣导随时将垃圾分类的好习惯。
身为环保导师的霍家燕老师一直很希望可以带动学生们积极做环保，当她看见慈济志工在校园内弯腰捡垃圾的画面，深深被感动了。
“看到你们到处走，捡起学校的垃圾，我希望学生看到后会有所感动，并自动自发地维护校园的整洁。”
中秋节庆结合绿色环保，让今年的中秋节更添意义。希望聚众之力减缓大地再受毁伤，让今后中秋夜空上的一轮明月清辉不减，年年岁岁，岁岁年年。
Celebrating a Green Mid-Autumn Festival with Zhong Hua Secondary
Translated by Chua Teong Seng
Zhong Hua Secondary School is one of the secondary schools participating in Tzu Chi's “Seeds of Hope” Bursary Programme. Mr Samuel Tso Hung Tim, the administration vice principal of the school, had heard of Tzu Chi before and it was Mr Samuel who invited Tzu Chi volunteers to set up an eco-awareness exhibition at the party to promote the significance of recycling to the school community.
The volunteers had the school’s permission to propagate the exhibition through the broadcasting system prior the event and were even invited to the Alumni meeting to make announcement. The publicity paid off with teachers and students flocking to the exhibition after enjoying the cultural performances at the Mid-Autumn Festival party.
Situated at a prominent corner in the school canteen, the exhibition offered billboards explanation, recycling demonstration, Da Ai Technology creation showcase, and display of Tzu Chi’s Jing Si eco-friendly products.
Making lasting product out of ‘garbage’
The teachers and students were particularly amazed with the eco-blanket developed by Da Ai Technology Co. Ltd., a company established and ran in Taiwan by five Tzu Chi entrepreneurs with profits channeled to Tzu Chi’s charitable work, using 70 recycled plastic bottles.
The plastic bottles were collected in Tzu Chi’s recycling points across Taiwan, where recycling volunteers wash, de-cap, de-ring, flatten, bag, and send them to factories to be shredded, rinsed, and made into polyester resin. This is then spun into yarn and woven into cloth from which light, soft, warm blankets are made. The blankets are often distributed along with food and medical supplies to the needy during Tzu Chi’s aid missions.
The teachers and students also marveled at the reusable lunchboxes, chopsticks and cups – known as the “three treasures” that Tzu Chi volunteers bring with them when dining out.
Mr Otto Tham, the Class 1E3 form teacher who’s on guided tour at the exhibition with his 30 students, was seen touching the eco-blanket to feel its texture. “This is really an eye-opener,” he praised. “It’s amazing that pop bottles can be transformed into quilts. We really learned a lot today.”
“I didn’t know that so much garbage can actually be recycled," commented relief teacher Chen Xiu Ying after seeing the sorted items at the recycling demonstration area. Ms Chen had heard about Tzu Chi before and, after her first contact with the Tzu Chi volunteers that day, she immediately expressed the interest to join their ranks.
To the volunteers’ surprise, the school has a ‘reverse vending machine’ that can compress plastic bottles and aluminium cans for recycling. To encourage usage, the school gives away stationery as rewards but the result was barely satisfactory. The school hopes that through Tzu Chi's eco-awareness exhibition, its students would better understand the importance of environmental conservation, and starts to make use of the machine.
Secondary three student Khoo Jia Yun was responsible for operating the ‘reverse vending machine’ which was specially shifted to the exhibition area that night. Jia Yun stood dutifully in front of it and explained and demonstrated to her fellow schoolmates the method to use the equipment.
She thinks that environmental conservation is actually a very interesting topic and it’s a pity that many people are not aware of fun facts like recycling an aluminium can could save enough energy to run a TV for three hours.
Influenced by her grandmother, Jia Yun had started recycling bottles and cans at home at a very young age. Having gained a deeper understanding of environmental issues after participating in an environmental competition last year, Jia Yun volunteered to take up the role of operating the ‘reverse vending machine’ during lunch recesses. In the eyes of Fok Kar Yin, the teacher in-charge of Zhong Hua Sec’s environmental initiatives, Jia Yun is a “young vanguard of the environment” in the school.
Action speaks louder than words
Shirlin Koh Ming Yi, who lives in Sengkang, is a member of the school's environmental club, The Green Committee. She has seen Tzu Chi volunteers doing recycling work in her community before and was surprised to learn at the exhibition that the use of disposable chopsticks would damage the environment and one's health (for disposable chopsticks are made by clear cutting forests for the wood, causing irreparable harm to the environment, and the residues of sulfur dioxide used to bleach the chopsticks also pose health risk.)
“Environmental protection is a pressing issue now. We must do our part to protect the Earth,” said Ming Yi. Although there is a lack of concern among her classmates, Ming Yi is determined to be committed in environmental undertakings and has even decided to stop using disposable chopsticks.
In addition to holding the exhibition, the Tzu Chi volunteers also made it a point to carry out a “litter-free mission” around the school with tongs and garbage bags, which has attracted some attention.
Ms Fok Kar Yin was deeply moved when she saw the volunteers bending down to pick up litter around the school compound. The teacher in-charge has always hoped to lead the students to do more on environmental protection.
“With all of you going around to pick up litter in our school, I hope the students will be moved and start to maintain cleanliness voluntarily,” she said.
Celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival with a touch of “green flavour” at Zhong Hua Secondary had made this year's festival even more meaningful. By rallying everyone's effort to reduce the damage to the Earth, we hope the moon will continue to shine brightly in the Mid-Autumn night sky, year after year.
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