1. Plastic waste and bamboo<

• The plastic bags we use – mainly discarded materials – are collected with the participating children in their neighborhood community.
• After the bags are cleaned, we have to cut them to save the largest layers we can shape.
• We use bamboo sticks for the frame of a kite – we employ local workers for this carving job or we buy the sticks in a shop if needed.

2. Upcycling/Processing the plastics

• We teach how to fuse/melt the plastic layers using an iron, to create large plastic sheets.
• Then we place the bamboo sticks for the frame, add a string and the kite is ready to FLY.
pro tip: The more plastic layers you fuse at once, the stronger the new plastic sheet is 😉

3. Let’s fly a kite

After a couple hours of work for the children, comes the time to let them free to play with their kites.
Examples: It’s time for us to wach the kids as they go crazy running all together after a kite trying to catch the tails or we view another cheerfully falling on the ground because he/she is running too quickly, and so on!

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Those moments and results are magical to us.
Because we know that we’ve brought a real unexpected fun and finals charming crafts to the children, involving complicity, friendship, and beautiful times.. from scraps.

4. Pollution awareness

With the participating children

now

very excited with the project, we can use that

new energy

to develop their interests into

this same waste material

we have used and which is definitely an environmental issue.

Course in: Poum Thmey Center Children’s House, Via Del Campo NGO – 2015

Our method is not only to show the children “what” to do, but to teach them “why” what we are doing is important for their well-being and communities. And not just to tell them to clean up.

• Educational

– Make realizing that Plastic Waste (which is Free) can be reused for goods and also be entertaining.
– Raise and support the children’s creativity.
– Teach/Insist on speaking English and highlight the vocabulary focusing on the environmental issues.

• Prevention for the environnement

We use the participant’s excitement that is bursting throughout the course (view our photo gallery below) to raise their awareness about the plastic waste material and its environmental issues.
Actually, that same waste material which we had so much fun with!

– To the best of our ability: We discuss relevant media, teach, raise awareness and bring questions about the plastic pollution found/collected in the children’s community.
We are thinking globally but acting locally to demonstrate that this pollution is causing problems to our environment.
Us: “With all this waste covering the water, do you think the fish can live?”
Children: “NOOO”
Us: “So you will not have fish to eat if there is too much waste or we might get really sick.”

– Definitly, we are teaching new words and meanings based on environmental pollution and its issues.

– Impact with local cartoons focusing on waste problems & waste management – watch our playlist >
 

Course in: École Chance – NGO Maison Chance, Ho Chi Minh City – Vietnam

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Course in: Sen Monorom Orphanage – NGO Enfants d’Asie, Mondulkiri Province – Cambodia