African Children Living in Harmony with Nature

With the modern world increasingly driving a wedge between us and nature, our, “Helping You Helps Me!” book, has had enormous impact on the learners that we have worked with. We have recently carried out the course at St Julius High School, Acacia Primary School and Yellowwood Park Primary school to over 400 learners.  

Learners have felt impowered by the course. Here are two successes in their own words (English is not their first language):

“I notice that my mom is love me. I notice that she wants me to be a good person. She wants me to be anything I want to be in the future. I notice that she like to make me laugh. I notice that my mom is a very very good person in the world.” Grade 8 learner.

“The most important thing I learned about this book is that it make, me notice that I know more about the ecosystem. It has tested my knowledge about the world or land that I stay in. More about the nature the love for animals. To learn more about how plants and animals help each other. That they are helpful to people, like people are useful to the plants and animals. Grade 8 learner.

The course creates awareness and changes the way young people think, so that nature and caring for the environment moves higher on the list of life's priorities. Teaching that our own survival is interwoven with, and interdependent upon, the health and survival of those life forms and things around us.

Through the exercises in the book learners gain a far better understanding of how the world works through balanced exchange, and they begin to take more actions to improve conditions around them and to safeguard and improve the natural world.

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