Welcome to the Special Edition of the ACSA environmental Newsletter for Youth. It is inspiring to see how the young people of our province are responding in creative ways to the challenge of the Environment and creation care. September youth news letter
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The environmental club at St Cyprians Anglican School has grown over the last five years and now consists of 40 girls from Grade 8 to Matric. Although concern for the environment is quite a new concept for all of us, we have started seeing it not as an added extra in our routine, but rather as an integral part of it. We started with an audit of the school which led to installing proper insulation for our Science labs, purchasing rain tanks and building our own vegetable garden. This year we have taken a more pro-active approach to environmentalism around the school. In June we held our annual Environmental week where we had guest speakers such as science writer Leonie Joubert who talked about food security, Cormac Cullinan who discussed Fracking in the Karoo, and the late Reverend John Oliver who spoke about the importance of the relationship between humans and the planet which God has blessed us with.
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Many young people lose hope when they struggle to find work. But some young men from St Michaels church in Harare, Khayelitsha had a different vision, they decided to start an organic garden. They have cleaned a plot of land owned by the church which involved removing a lot of rubble and rubbish!
At a vibrant, action packed evening with much fun and laughter, members of the AYF from 5 Dioceses introduced their friends and colleagues to some critical environmental issues through a series of thought-provoking eco-dramas. Using background information, groups were tasked with developing a story around a contextual environmental issue in their own Diocese. In ten minute presentations, each team of actors had to do a performance that was not only factually correct but one which offered a sense of hope with positive and practical suggestions for action and change.
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An appeal to engage in local discussion around Hydraulic Fracturing in many parts of the Anglican Communion. by Revd Ken Gray, ACEN Secretary Through a personal appeal grounded in local experience Dr. Jeff Golliher, Program Director for the Environment and Sustainable Communities, Anglican United Nations Office, New York, NY and an advisor to the Anglican Communion Environmental Network, provides not only information about fracking but a strategy for engagement.
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The Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Revd Thabo Makgoba, the chair of the Anglican Communion Environment Network (ACEN), is encouraging the 85 million Anglicans in 38 Provinces to use new ACEN prayers and resources from South Africa and England in church services on or around Environment Sunday (2nd June) and World Environment Day (5th June). They include a children’s prayer (written by 10-year-old Jackie from South Africa) and are available here.
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