<i>School kids vow to save trees, environment</i>
School kids at an event on the premises of Rangpur Town Hall on Friday pledged to protect trees and save environment.
Over 2,000 students from 20 schools in the district joined the function in the afternoon and vowed to save environment and work for equity and justice.
The event was organised by the Green Brick Project of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as an awareness campaign to promote the cause for reducing environmental pollution and to make energy use more efficient.
The function marked the end of a three-day campaign where school children, brick manufacturers and entrepreneurs participated in various awareness building sessions.
This was the first spell of the regional awareness campaign by the project and will be followed by the two more events in Maymensingh and Cox's Bazar over next two months.
Md Mahfuzur Rahman, secretary of Bangladesh Parliament, Jasimuddin Ahmed, divisional commissioner of Rangpur, BM Enamul Haque, deputy commissioner of Rangpur, writer Dr Jakir Talukder, Khondker Neaz Rahman, project manager, and Prof Moloy Kishore Bhattacharya spoke.
Secretary Mahfuzur Rahman in his speech urged the students to come forward to take the challenges of the 21st century and build a green country.
Divisional Commissioner Jasimuddin Ahmed said the existing brick kilns have been causing huge amount of carbon emission as well as deforestation, making adverse impact on environment, biodiversity and human health.
He urged the entrepreneurs to use environment-friendly green technology in setting up brick kilns to protect biodiversity, forests and human health from environmental peril.
The programme was followed by a colourful cultural show.
Green Brick Project's overall aim is to replace the 150-year-old energy-intensive conventional brick making technology with an energy efficient and smokeless Hybrid-Hoffman Kiln technology. The programme also sensitised the young generation about the green development initiative of UNDP Bangladesh.
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