The Ahliyyah School for Girls Eco School participants started enlivening the school’s landscape by replacing the dead, useless plants with those that are fresh and lively. Haya Hayek, the student vice president, was one of many who played farmer for a day: “We planted thyme, sage, and mint. We also removed all of the rocks in Natalie's area since we want to plant flowers instead.”
The Eco School group has been working on the improvement of the school in radical ways by doing various projects. This group started with two simple words: Go Green! Going green, students researched, built, made business trips, and calculated expenses with the supervision of Mr.Qais Al Hinti. The first four months have been “wild rides” full of meetings and plans, until they reached the point at which they had to start acting and working. Last Monday, it all started.
On Monday, the long awaited flowers and plants arrived at the school. They were given to the students responsible and stored in safe places for the next day. Twenty four hours later, the girls shoveled the soil to get it ready for the appointed moment at which the members of Eco School will proudly and permanently create a new home for the plants and perk up the ASG playground. Wednesday and Thursday were the most fruitful to date, as the plants and seeds were placed firmly in the soil with lively, fun, memorable moments and many black spiders!
When interviewing some girls from the Eco School society, they all had different viewpoints regarding this wonderful process. “I love to see my school more green, and the last few years the gardens looked miserable,” a student proclaimed. Another member also stated that young girls randomly came to watch them make the school a better place, and they were taught how to take care when it comes to the plant life. Another girl involved in Eco School added: “Yes, there is always more room to improve and go extra green, especially when living in a world of pollution and global warming. But we, as the Eco schools team, have a plan, and we started working on it. Hopefully, at the end of the plan, we will find ourselves happy for contributing to creating a greener environment, a cleaner atmosphere and a better world.”
This successful and profitable event was one that will be recorded in the school’s history, as it taught students how to be productive and work to succeed. It was a learning experience that came out of dedication and love for the school and the environment. What is next is hopefully going to be even more dynamic, as Eco School is starting to build bird houses to make the Ahliyyah School for Girls a place not just for plants and humans, but also for animals. This is really one of the most creative, dynamic events of the year, and it is going to turn out to be a great success.
Written By: Natalie Fasheh, 10
With the Help of : Aseel Al-Bana, 8
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