Nigerian organisation emerges first to win Okayama award in W’Africa
27 December 2022 |
3:27 am
A Nigerian owned pan-African non-profit organisation, Green Growth Africa Sustainability Network (GreenGrowthAfrica), has emerged winner of Okayama award for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and the Pratt & Whitney E-STEM award. The development makes the organisation the first in Nigeria and West Africa and the third in Africa to win the award, which is…
A Nigerian owned pan-African non-profit organisation, Green Growth Africa Sustainability Network (GreenGrowthAfrica), has emerged winner of Okayama award for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and the Pratt & Whitney E-STEM award.
The development makes the organisation the first in Nigeria and West Africa and the third in Africa to win the award, which is given to a maximum of two organisations from across the globe, yearly.
The organisation won the awards in the same month for its giant strides in promoting environmental education across the African continent and in extension the global community.
Bestowed based on global competition and evaluations by globally-reputed organisations, the awards came on the backdrop of the organisation’s initiatives, which educate and empower youth with hands-on and practice-oriented environmental education in African secondary schools.
“So far, our Environmental Education Programme has impacted more than 3,000 students, 44 teachers, and 156 families in Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Cameroon, Kenya, and Uganda including outreaches to schools in United States of America and Italy,” Executive Director of the organisation, Dr. Adedoyin Adeleke, said in a statement.
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