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Located in a disadvantaged area of Anamur, Turkey, the Vakifbank Atatürk School has been conducting activities to raise students’ awareness of social and environmental issues. 

The school philosophy is to think with its students about solutions to global problems, and to involve them in the solution. The school's team believes that problems such as climate change cannot be solved by one segment of society alone. For this reason, they have created their action plans from local to global in order to change our consumption habits, to solve environmental problems through individual actions, to raise awareness about saving and recycling, and to reach the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. 

A reduced carbon footprint 

The Project, ‘ISEE -Innovative Sustainable Environment Education’, is related to increasing environmental awareness among students, teachers and parents, raising awareness about carbon footprints, recycling, re-using, consumption, saving, awareness of endemic creatures and plants, flora and fauna.   

The project has enabled families to see the damage they cause to nature through carbon footprint calculations and to make small lifestyle changes. The average carbon footprint of the sample group, which was 4.31 at the beginning of the project, has decreased to 3.68. Quarterly periodical electricity and water consumptions are followed up, and the average energy and water consumption has been reduced. 

The school has begun planting a forest of 6,000 saplings and conducting greening work using recycled materials. 

The success of this work has been shared with schools in Romania, Hungary, Italy, Estonia, Serbia, Spain and Poland. One of the objectives of this project is to be widely disseminated in all schools as in-class and extra-curricular activities. 

Would you like to participate in its development?