EFI organises ocean workshop for school students along with GCC

In a bid to sensitise schoolhouse children astir marine conservation, the Environmentalist Foundation of India (EFI), a non-governmental organisation, conducted the Chennai Ocean Workshop successful the metropolis connected Thursday.

Hosted on with the Greater Chennai Corporation and HCL Foundation astatine the precocious renovated Victoria Public Hall, the store saw 200 schoolhouse children participating from 20 schools crossed the city. The five-hour league was aimed astatine creating consciousness astir the conservation of marine beingness and habitat.

Arun Krishnamurthy, EFI’s founder, said the store focused connected gamification models to present aspects of threats to marine life, pollution, and the request for conservation and assemblage consciousness among students. Interactive activities were utilized to prosecute students connected threats that marine taxon face.

The store besides encouraged schools to acceptable up water clubs to assistance students recognize quality activities and their interaction connected water and marine habitat. Two much workshops successful Kovalam and Marina formation would beryllium organised, targeting to scope 1,000 students by March, helium said.