The subject on environment will soon be included among college curriculums for this year.
Finding the need to raise awareness and concern on the environment, the Environment Advocacy Module will soon be implemented in the National Service Training Programs (NSTP) before the year ends.
This after the Department of Education was impressed with the said module which was recently pilot tested among colleges and universities in Baguio City.
United States Agency for International Development Environmental and Clean Air Project area coordinator Edna Tabanda said the EAM was created by representatives from various universities, colleges, high schools and technical schools in the city for environmental concerns.
The module was also highly recommended by the Commission on Higher Education and the National Economic Development Authority.
Even US Ambassador Christy Kenney lauded the said module, when it was presented to her during her recent visit to the University of the Cordilleras.
Tabanda said it is important to advocate environmental concerns to the youth or the students, as these young ones will inherit the environment and whatever ill effects done to it.
Incorporating and integrating environmental concerns in the curriculum, Tabanda said is also important in order to institutionalize and to sustain the programs or actions that would address such concerns. She said there is still a need to advocate and practice the proper care and protection of the environment explaining that it will affect anyone’s life and health being a concern of global scope. — Ferliza C. Contratista/BRP