WORD FROM THE PARTICIPANTS TO THE PERTH SUMMIT 1999
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My name is Gloria Tumushabe. I am in Form Six at Mt St. Mary's College Namagunga . I love the environment, for I have always lived in a clean environment, clean with no litter, pure air no pollution but the rate at which the environment is being misused is alarming. The clean environment of no pollution and no litter will become only a memory of the past is we do not preserve, conserve and protect it. I am involved in the waste Management Project so that together we can we can protect our environment on which our future depends. Through my participation in the project day by day I have gained more respect for the environment In Perth, Western Australia, I hope to meet many young people from other parts of the world who also care about the environment. I hope to exchange ideas with them on how to protect our environment - our future and on my return home, share the ideas with my fellow students in Uganda so that we can contribute to the conservation of our environment. |
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My name is Katushabe Joanita. I am in senior five sciences at Mt St. Mary's college Namagunga. One of the things I like most about my school is that it is beautiful green lawns, hedges and flower gardens and the fresh clean air that today I can not easily find any where else. It people are not made aware of the things they enjoy in their environment, they cannot see the need to conserve it. That is why I am involved in the waste Management project in my school. I have been made more aware of my environment and the rate at which it is being destroyed. Through this project, I feel the growing need to make my own contribution towards saving our planet, which through pollution is being destroyed. In Perth, Australia, I hope to meet many young people like me from all over the world. Who are also concerned about the environment. I hope to exchange ideas with them on how we can all work towards conserving nature, and to come back and share these ideas with fellow Ugandan students , so that together we can make a positive contribution to wards the conservation of our environment. |
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My name is Akite Lydia. Senior Five Sciences, Mt. St. Mary's College Namagunga. Uganda has always been known as the "Pearl of Africa" but to me the phrase has lost meaning. The vegetation, wetlands and general environment which was once so beautiful is increasingly being destroyed and has led to my concern. I know that as an individual there is very little that I can do but I believe that Through the waste Management project started in my school, I will play a big part in saving my Motherland. Through sensitising of the public and showing them through action, that the environment is very important, and needs proper care, I will attain my goal This is just the root of my plant and not only in Namagunga, but Uganda as a whole and throughout the whole world. |
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My name is Nanyange Mary Alison. I am in my final year in A-level at
Mt. St. Mary's College Namagunga. The state of our environment is peril.
World temperatures are rising there is a reduction of forest cover and
wetlands. Pollution of air water and soils long draughts and famine. Also
many plants and animal species are endangered. This is the price we are
paying for taking the God given gifts of our environment. Nevertheless,
we can try to change what we can and save what is left.
We in the Waste Management Project are concerned about the poor disposal of wastes. We are trying to contribute to the conservation and protection of our environment by sensitizing people about the dangers of poor waste management and working with them in recycling the wastes. At the Summit in Perth, Western Australia, I hope to exchange views, ideas and solutions to these different concerns with other environmentalists and back home, share and put them into practice in order to change the state of our environment for the better. |
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Participation in the Perth Summit: I personally think
that everyone has a responsibility to our world the same way in which every
student has a responsibility to maintain his or her room or dormitory and
a tenant his house. I feel that we have ignored this responsibility, as
a world, for far too long. While we could get a way with it before because
of our small numbers , the steady population explosion and equally rapid
resource depletion must force us in time to face the consequences of our
actions. I know for certain that it is better now than later.
As a youth living at the close of the millenium With the third millenium of this civilization posing many threats and challenges to the careless way all our past generations have lived, and calling on us to change this heritage, of irresponsibility) I feel that the change has to begin with me for I am the future. Fortunately, my school is among the few communities that is aware of this threat and willing to do something about it. I'm doubly proud that I might be representing our school (God willing) at a world summit of few environmentalists. From all the continents of the world. I hope to share my experiences and concerns with other students, share all the solutions to local problems that we have come up with, in the hope that they will help some other people save the situation in their communities . I hope to be enlightened about other solutions that others have found to their environmental problems. To me the Perth summit is like a meeting of scouts who had gone out in all directions to seek out the enemy positions and to assess the magnitude of the danger facing their base and have met to report their findings and discuss assessments, tentative plans of action, and the prospects of winning a war in which they seem surrounded. These scouts can only do a little in disabling one or two enemy jeeps and disarming the odd lone soldier but they need to return to the base and mobilize everyone in order to fight the vast armies encamped around them and win the war. We the students are the scouts, the earth our endangered base, the world community our army, pollution and environmental degradation our enemies encamped around us, drawing steadily closer and closing in, unknown to every one else but the scouts. Nobody else seems to fully understand the danger our planet is in except us and we must warn everyone to rise up and deal with the deteriorating situation of our environment. |
