EXHIBITION ON THE ENVIRONMENT
Seven schools take part in exhibition organized by Pudu Rotary Club
THE Highland Towers condominium collapse is still fresh in the mind of students of the Kuan Cheng Girls’ School as shown in an exhibition on the environment yesterday.
The My Obligation To Planet Earth exhibition was held at their school and seven other schools also took part in it.
The Kuan Cheng Girls’ School Interact Club members displayed their exhibit to show the dangers of soil erosion with the message "Don’t cut trees for development purposes".
They came up with three models showing the impact of development on a piece of land.
The first model showed a fertile tree-filled land that became a barren lot in the second model after the trees were felled.
"The land’s stability is affected and our third model shows what would happen to buildings built on such a weak foundation," said club president Low Wei Choon.
Another participating school, Sri Sentosa Secondary School, chose the recycling theme to show how useful items could be made out of discarded ones.
Its students have transformed the cans into a rubbish bin by glueing them together. They also made shopping bags out of calendars and bookmarks from dried leaves.
The exhibition was organized by the Pudu Rotary Club and opened by Department of Environment director-general Datuk Dr Abu Bakar Said on behalf of Deputy Science, Technology and Environment Minister Peter Chin.
Abu Bakar has earlier presented 1,200kg of old newspapers collected by students of Kuan Cheng Girls’ School to The News Straits Times Press (M) Bhd group general manager for research and corporate communications P.C. Shivadas.
Pudu Rotary Club president Chow Taim later donated RM10,000 towards the Ministry’s Awareness Education Fund.
Source : The Malay Mail, January 17 1994
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