31 March 2008
Maputo — Mozambique's technical and professional schools are to include environmental education on their curriculum under a project financed by Belgium.
The project is budgeted at 126,000 euros (about 200,000 US dollars), and will be implemented by the National Museum of Geology for the next two years. It forms part of a "Museum-school", the pilot phase of which, involving explaining the country's geological and mineral wealth in schools, has been running since 2006.
The programme intends to develop skills that the pupils will be able to use in their future professional lives.
The pilot project was only undertaken in some secondary and technical schools in Maputo. The new phase will also include technical institutes in Boane, Chokwe and Inhambane in the south of the country, and Beira and Chimoio in the centre.
These schools will include environmental matters on their curriculum, including energy and climate change, biodiversity, industrial and agricultural pollution, erosion, water and sanitation, and waste management.
In running this project, the Geology Museum is in partnership with the Department of Human Ecology in the Free University of Brussels, and with two South African institutions, the Tshwane University of Technology and Museum Park.
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