Taraz against POPs (Creation of tendency to shorten POPs emissions in and around Taraz city by means of local population awareness raising about POPs and consequences of the POPs emissions into atmosphere)
The problem of POPs excites the public all over the world for many years. The situation is complicated due to that many people don't even know about POPs and their harmful influence on human beeing.
The problem of population poor awareness about POPs is also actual for Taraz city. As a result, universal dumps of dust are practically everywhere, being the main source of POPs in the city. The dust accumulates on the streets, near to houses, in reservoirs. The centralized processing and sorting of waste in city is absent. A part of the dust is utilized by inhabitants by burning. Daily influence of POPs can lead to serious diseases. For this reason there is a sharp need for informing citizents about the problem and about the ways it can be solved.
During the project implementation a " Week against POPS " will be arranged at ecological school "Shanyrak" to set up a command of trainers consisting of 10 pupils to carry out information-educational seminars on POPS in other schools; seminars for 400 pupils of 5 schools, and 300 students of 3 higher schools of Taraz city will be arranged; 1000 booklets and 100 posters with the information about the ways to decrease POPS emissions will be distributed during actions in Russian and Kazakh languages; ecological procession "Taraz against POPs" directed on informing of the population of Taraz city about POPs will take place; regular access to the information about POPs and activities under the project will be provided by creation of a web-page about POPs, and also publications in mass media; public hearings on POPs issues will be led with attraction of NGOs, local authorities and other partners.
The problem of population poor awareness about POPs is also actual for Taraz city. As a result, universal dumps of dust are practically everywhere, being the main source of POPs in the city. The dust accumulates on the streets, near to houses, in reservoirs. The centralized processing and sorting of waste in city is absent. A part of the dust is utilized by inhabitants by burning. Daily influence of POPs can lead to serious diseases. For this reason there is a sharp need for informing citizents about the problem and about the ways it can be solved.
During the project implementation a " Week against POPS " will be arranged at ecological school "Shanyrak" to set up a command of trainers consisting of 10 pupils to carry out information-educational seminars on POPS in other schools; seminars for 400 pupils of 5 schools, and 300 students of 3 higher schools of Taraz city will be arranged; 1000 booklets and 100 posters with the information about the ways to decrease POPS emissions will be distributed during actions in Russian and Kazakh languages; ecological procession "Taraz against POPs" directed on informing of the population of Taraz city about POPs will take place; regular access to the information about POPs and activities under the project will be provided by creation of a web-page about POPs, and also publications in mass media; public hearings on POPs issues will be led with attraction of NGOs, local authorities and other partners.
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Project Snapshot
Grantee:
The Zhambyl Zhastary NGO
Country:
Kazakhstan
Area Of Work:
Chemicals
Grant Amount:
US$ 2,000.00
Co-Financing Cash:
Co-Financing in-Kind:
US$ 4,173.00
Project Number:
KAZ/05/06
Status:
Satisfactorily Completed
Project Characteristics and Results
Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment
Project activities include organization of ecological lectures at schools on POPs issues, attraction of schoolboys into carrying out seminars at schools and universities, releases and distribution of booklets and posters with the information about POPs and way on how the problem can be solved, organization of actions wityh the purpose of information sharing about the issue, publication of articles in mass-media, carrying out of public hearings on POPs with participation of the city dwellers, mass-media, NGOs. etc.
Capacity - Building Component
The project will strengthen NGOs' capacity in realizaion of the information campaigns and improve communications with local community, governmental departments and other counterparts. A wide audience will be acknowledged with the POPs issue.
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