Starting this year, with the collaboration of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the educational projects of RICREA (the Italian national non-profit consortium for Recycling and Recovery of Steel Packaging) are open to the students of the Italian schools abroad.
“We are pleased to have involved the Italian schools abroad, institutions that are central to the Italian Educational System in the World, in the projects of environmental education promoted by RICREA – said the Embassy Counsel, Valentina Setta, Head of the V DGSP Office of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation – After last year’s experimentation, in which children of the Italian primary schools abroad participated in the Ambarabà Ricicloclò® initiative, and the recent launch of the first international Yes I Can tour, which has already involved Italian high schools abroad, we think that the opening of the three initiatives: Ambarabà Ricicloclò®, Riciclick® and Yes I Can to students all over the world will enable us to pursue, in a creative and effective way, the goals of promotion of the Italian language and culture, focused through the languages and values that form the heart of these activities”.
Sponsored by the Andersen magazine, Ambarabà Ricicloclò® is a project that invites the children of the primary schools to play with words that tell the story of recycling steel packing materials, by composing “limericks”.
At the middle school level, instead, registrations are open for participation in the photography contest RiciClick®: the children will be asked to take a picture with the Riciclick app, on the theme “MI RIFIUTO!”, using a smartphone.
Describing the good practices of recovery and recycling of steel packaging is the basis of Yes I Can, in which the storyteller Luca Pagliari talks to high school students, inviting them to act responsibly because they too can have active role in protecting the environment.
Full information is available on the website Ricreaedu, with a special section “Mondo” dedicated to the participation of Italian schools abroad.
