HOPE WEEK
Elephants
‘Hope
Week’ begun with the Elephant group. Our goal was to raise awareness about the
exploitation of elephants and their trunks being used for ivory. We talked to
everyone who stopped by our booth about how elephants were being exploited in
circuses and tortured for the sake of our entertainment. We handed out leaflets
giving more details about their exploitation and displayed a video about the
cruelty that they are faced with. We also put up posters about the exploitation
of elephants around the school. To add to this we had a journal open to everyone
to write down their thoughts, we got a lot of feedback from our ‘Hope Week
Journal’ and this showed us that everyone was aware of what was being done to
the elephants around south East Asia.
— Aisha 10E
Endangered Species
Hundreds of plants and animals around are going extinct every day due to lots of factors such as loss of habitat, global warming and pollution, which humans have played a major role in. So our group of 5 chose to talk about what we know about the major crisis in Malaysia concerning the animals in danger of becoming extinct. We informed people about endangered species like the orang-utan the Sumatran tigers, Sumatran Rhinos, Turtles. We displayed posters and handed out fliers with general information about these animals to the students of MIGS. To add to this we had looping video playing in the background about these endangered species. We also had people in our group who spoke to the students about this cause, we explained to them how these animals are exploited and how their habitats are in danger.
— Rith
10E
Sharkfin
Our group Shark Fin consisted of
five people, this included, Keshvinder, Farriz, Iman, Mustafa and I. Our main
aim was to raise awareness of what’s going on in our environment, so we decided
to raise awareness of the exploitation of sharks for their fins. We chose this
topic because the population of sharks are decreasing because of the high demand
of their fins. To ‘’spread the word’’, we printed out posters and hand-outs
about the importance of shark in our marine ecosystem and the side effects of
eating shark’s fin. We then handed out the leaflets and displayed our posters.
Overall succeed in informing people about the exploitation of sharks and some
of them even said that they will not eat shark’s fin anymore and the feedback
received showed that we were able to deliver our message, this made us feel
really happy.
—
Faras 10T
Recycling
We were an ambitious group of 6,
who wanted to look beyond the walls of just idly standing at our stalls,
preaching about something not many seemed to have an interest for. So after a
few sessions of planning, we came up with our solid plan of hosting a Recycling
Competition. Each class was given a large plastic bag and were told to collect
and squish as many aluminium cans as possible before a deadline. Classes
throughout the senior school were to compete for the title of being the
‘Greenest Class of the Year’ and of course, the promised grand prize. I must
admit, we were all astounded by the great response as it was far more pleasing
than expected-the year 8s in particular. Each was weighed and the winning class
was found, with a bag weighing a spectacular 8.1 kg, the class of 8T became the
‘Greenest Class of the Year 2013’. In total, we collected 21 kgs of aluminium
cans which we now plan to send it off to be what it was collected for,
recycling.
—
Michelle Lim 10T
The Trees/Plants
On the 4th day of “Hope Week”, the Trees/Plants group, which
consisted of Adiiba, Yasheena, Tony, Izaan and I filled recycled bottles with
soil and seeds in them for the students to adopt a plant. Many students showed
their appreciation towards nature as they adopted their own plants from the
stall. We raised awareness about using less paper and recycling as many sheets
of paper as possible so that fewer trees are cut down. Our group had small
handouts printed out as well as posters to bring awareness of wasting paper.
The aim of our tree planting group was to appreciate nature, and the world
around us, and not to take it for granted. At the end of the day we had given
away 20 students each a plant and with hope that they will take good care of
their plants.
—
Zainab 10T
Tissue
On the last day of Hope Week it was our turn, the
Tissue Group. Our aim was to raise awareness on the wastage of tissue paper
especially in school toilets and also to change ones perspective. We presented
our information on how important tissue paper is and we cheerfully explained it
to anyone who visited our booth. Along with that we had distributed small
flyers that summarised the important points and highlights of our project. Plus
for a much more interesting way of passing out a message, we had played a video
on how not to waste tissues unnecessarily, which was looping until the end of
the day so that even parents would have a chance to look at it. We left a ‘Hope
Week Journal’ for people to state their opinions and feedback. The feedback
from the students was tremendous as many loved the idea. We are thankful that
this project was a success and hope it has changed perspectives.
Tissue Group: Sangeeta, Dina, Zalisha, Iqah and Ruba.
Tissue Group: Sangeeta, Dina, Zalisha, Iqah and Ruba.
—
Sangeeta 10E
