Qatar Charity Launches 2030 Challenge Program Sustainability Makers

Doha, January 16 (QNA) - Qatar Charity, in cooperation with the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change and the Biology Education of Qatar University Alumni Association, and with the participation of 10 middle and secondary schools for girls, launched the first edition of the 2030 Challenge Program Sustainability Makers that focuses on Qatar National Vision 2030's environmental development. 
   The program began with the first workshop, which was organized at the headquarters of Qatar Charity on the topic "Sustainability in Qatar". The dimensions and goals of sustainable development and possible environmental solutions were presented and discussed.
   An introductory meeting was held for the participating schools, where the areas of the innovative projects that would be evaluated were presented. The assessment of the projects was also explained, which will most importantly focus on social and intellectual impact as well as environmental danger.
   Suzan Mohamed Essam, an environmental researcher at the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change discussed the definition of sustainable development and its goals, how these goals have been applied in Qatar through sustainability projects, raising an educated generation as well as community awareness to achieve societal sustainability, environmental sustainability, and ways of finding innovative creative solutions by the participating teams.
   The workshop witnessed a large presence of middle and high school students, exceeding 100 students. An introductory meeting was held for the participating schools, where each school nominated its team to work within their schools on the projects presented in the program, under the supervision of specialists, so that the projects would later be delivered and the first three places for each would be judged from middle and high school.
   A teacher at Rawda Bin Jassim Secondary School, Asma Suleiman, said that her school is participating in the sustainability project in Qatar to have a mark on the area where the school is located. They started by forming an agriculture team that participated in Expo 2023 Doha, and they are continuing the journey with them now in this challenge to find solutions to eliminate desertification and encourage afforestation. The school encourages the students to search for solutions to various environmental problems, such as water shortages and pollution.
   The program's workshops will continue until the beginning of next February and are presented by the Environmental Awareness Department of the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, while the Biology Education Branch of Qatar University graduates supports student projects from an applied perspective by providing supervisors and specialists to supervise student projects, in addition to directing and guiding the school project supervisor, setting evaluation and judging criteria for creative projects, and contributing to the arbitration of projects. (QNA)