Freetown, 07 June, 2022 / 4:45 pm (ACI Africa).
More than 5,000 youth in Sierra Leone are set to benefit from a climate club initiative spearheaded by the members of the Religious Institute of the Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB).
In a Sunday, June 5 report on the occasion of the World Environment Day (WED), officials of the Salesian Missions, the U.S. SDB development arm, say that due to the need to “foster environmental responsibility” through education, “youth have launched important projects to help their communities and beyond.”
“Salesian missionaries have an ongoing focus on the environment in their organizations around the globe. This has been driven by Pope Francis’ 2020 Laudato Si’, which underlined the importance of education and training that will help youth foster environmental responsibility,” the Director of Salesian Missions, Fr. Gus Baek, has been quoted as saying.
In Sierra Leone, a new climate club in Lungi, a small coastal town in the Port Loko District of the Northern Province, has been launched to mainly focus on environmental education and other related activities.
The project, which Fr. Philip Gboa oversees targets those enrolled in local Salesian schools and youth centers who are supposed to gain from the environment related training that seek to “protect, and restore our planet”.
