The blazing hot of the sun did not decrease the enthusiasm of SMP Pangerasan students to follow Hans van Florenstein Mulder’s instructions -trainer from New Zealand, in arranging layers of animal manure, weed, straw, rice husk, small cutting of banana trunk to become organic fertilizer pile. That was seen at the school yard with blue roof at the slope of Salak Mountain, where 206 students studying for free since the year 2007.
Make friends with nature as one method to educate children at school!This issue is not too pompous and will never be out-of-date considering the condition of our nature which is already damaged heavily and less convenience anymore for our children. However, we can not blame the nature to react extremely beyond our imagination to what we have done to the environment itself. This activity was not scheduled in particular to commemorate ‘World Environment Day’* on 5 June 2009.
”Make friends with nature and educate students with life skill training” becomes part of HDI Foundation’s commitment and is applied to HDI Foundation’s assisted schools, one of them is SMP Pangerasan in Cibalung Village, Bogor. This responsibility has motivated us to carry out ‘Producing Organic Fertilizer Training’ as part of organic farming principles introduction on Tuesday, 2 June 2009, involving about 60 participants from students and teachers of SMP Pangerasan of course, parents, village farmer groups and some external people who’s interested to this issue. Useful
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* World Environment Day was born ‘in the connection’ of EARTH DAY on 22 April 1970 by United State of America’s Senator Garlord Nelson. While Earth Day was sparked 2 years later on 5 June 1972, during United Nations Congress about Environment Day in Stockholm.
