Environmental Education

SEPA's Environmental Education program helps educate young students in Afghan schools about the environment.  It also teaches them to take personal actions in protecting the environment and avoid harming it with their actions.

Why Environmental Education?

The environment in which most Afghan students live is polluted.  Caused by uncontrolled release of carbon into the air from burning rubber and plastics for household cooking and warming needs, Afghan children breath unhealthy air.  In addition, underground and running water and the environment are polluted from building housing on rivers sides, dumping waste into running streams and rivers, and the huge influx of migration of people from villagers to cities.  Other issues such as excavation of deep wells, deforestation, improper maintenance green areas, non-expansion of green areas, use of coal for heating, building houses in unplanned areas, free hunting of wild animal also all contribute to degrading the environment in Afghanistan and worsening the habitat there.

Global warming has already created challenges in Afghanistan.  Unprecedented heatwave, periodic flash floods, health issues, pollution and respiratory as well as other pollution born illnesses presents serious challenges to Afghans both in cities in villages.  

How is Environmental Education Delivered?

Focused on countering the issues facing environment in Afghanistan, SEPA’s Environmental Education teaches students in grade 1-12 to learn about the importance of keep the environment clean and healthy for their future.  Our world class curriculum teaches students to take personal responsibility for protecting the environment from harm. It teaches them practical ideas about how to use alternative and environment-friendly habits to counter the destructive impact of environment degradation in Afghanistan.  The curriculum teaches the students the important of planation and green areas in both purifying the air quality and beautifying the city.  The students are encouraged to be change agents expanding the impact of their knowledge to their family and friends.  The curriculum is divided into 12 courses.  Each course is taught in a respective grade.  For example, course 1 is taught in grade 1 while course 12 is taught in grade 12. 

SEPA trains dedicated teachers to deliver these trainings in Afghan schools. The teacher training component includes both education on learning the challenges to environment in Afghanistan and ways to deliver that education to students in a classroom setting.   This is a unique program that helps both provide education to Afghan students and help them become champions of protecting the environment in Afghanistan.  This program aligns with SEPA vision to help Afghan children achieve needed education in Afghanistan.