Advenviro Camp submits proposal for eco-club

As we are the first group of learners to attend a camp organised by SAEON, we felt it a necessity to extend our learning experience through an eco-club. What we have learned at the camp is beyond words and explanations. We have been given a whole new perspective towards nature conservation.

As Jacques Moller* once said, 'Environmental education is the key to conservation'. We now stand firm on those words.

SAEON has changed us, made us products of their knowledge and invested in us. It would only be our pleasure to show them how much this has advanced our knowledge. An eco-club is a great and exciting way of creating young and up-coming scientists, biologists and conservationists to fight against the destruction of nature.

ADVENVIRO 2006 can make that happen! Yes, we can kick-start this eco-club, not on our own, but with anchorage and kind support from SAEON. This eco-club can help ADVENVIRO 2007 to arrive at the camp with some background knowledge of the overall course that will be given.

# The group of 2006 will help collect (identify) and train three potential learners from every school to form this club.

# SAEON will provide the club with activities on which the club will lay their focus, while the group of 2006 shares some topics which they received at their camp.

# The group of 2007 will then do the same to advance the potential group of 2008.

We are overloaded with visions and ideas to make the club a great success, through dedication and determination, WE CAN!!!

We feel proud and brave to say that SAEON needs us in order to have an even brighter future. Invest in this Eco-club and it WILL benefit you, us and the rest of the people!

ADVENVIRO CAMP -. . . .Conserve today for a better tomorrow.

* Jacques Moller is a conservation officer at the Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre (HESC), one of SAEON's partners in Education Outreach. Jacques was one of the presenters at the Winter School.