As part of World No Pesticide Use Week, on 11 December 2020, SRD collaborated with Son La Planting and Plant Protection Sub-Department (PPSD) and the Muoi Noi Primary - Secondary School and held a media event for the students.
About 450 primary and secondary school students and the teachers have attended and participated in the event activities.
At the event, Mrs Hoang Thi Sen has given a speech about the program's goals. The representative of Son La PPSD, Mr Pham Van Tho has shared with the students about the harms of pesticides on our health and the environment. In his presentation, Mr Tho also showed how pesticides contaminate our air, soil and water, polluting the environment and causing biodiversity loss; how to use pesticides safely: use the right chemical for the right disease/pest with the right dose and follow the instructions on the label; how to identify toxicity levels of pesticides through reading labels: red is extremely toxic, yellow is highly toxic, blue is moderately toxic and green is slightly toxic.
Mrs Hoang Thi Sen
Mr Pham Van Tho
Mr Bui Quoc Quan has hosted a quiz about the harmful effects of pesticides while sharing with the students the results of a survey on students' knowledge about the effects of pesticides in Thai Nguyen and Nam Dinh.
The school principal has emphasized and summarized the harmful effects of pesticides on people’s health, especially children’s.
Mr Bui Quoc Quan
Next, 12 groups of 4-6 children each joined in drawing pictures on the topic "the effects, safe use and reducing the use of pesticides". After 30 minutes, the students with other friends and organizers grouped the content of the pictures in groups of dos and don’ts with members of each team explaining their team's pictures.
Students explaining their pictures
During those 30 minutes, Mr Tho and other students reviewed the harmful effects and how to reduce the use of pesticides, the ones who answered correctly got gifts from the program.
At the end of the event, all the students, teachers and the organizers took photos and passed out flyers, expected each student to become advocates for limiting the use of pesticides locally.