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Project's Name: Fire threatens our trees. Let's restore The Green Lebanon

Project's Coordination: Ministry of Education, Directorate General for Education in collaboration "Educational Association for IT development - EAID"

Time line : October 2011 – May 2012

Project's Overview

Project's Summary: Prepare a study on some of Lebanon’s trees, their history and the declining Lebanese forestry resources; followed by a planting campaign of afforested areas by secondary classes’ students, in cooperation between the schools and the surrounding civil communities. In addition to that, undertake a scientific research on the tree types to be cultivated, fully displayed in a PowerPoint presentation, where all project phases should be documented through films, documents and students’ visions of firefighting and means to restore The Green Lebanon.

Problematic: Increasing of the number of fires in forests during recent years, which threatened forestation in Lebanon and means to stop this erosion.

Suggested Solutions: To focus on solutions that students envision in order to create a green environment compatible with the ecological, touristic and environmental needs of Lebanon.

Project Participants: Private and Public Secondary students between the age of 12 and 18

Project implementation schedule: The project will be launched in mid-October 2011 and will run till April 2012. Students’ work will be posted on the Internet on an ongoing basis through the “Schoolnet” forum, which provides for these students a space for direct dialogue over the network. The projects will be evaluated early April 2012. The distinguished projects will be presented at a ceremony held under the auspices of the Minister of Education and Higher Education, in the Auditorium located in the twelfth floor of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education building.

 Expected results: Planted area, essays, articles, reports, flyers, publications, pictures, art, and activities targeted towards Change and the Use of social networking sites. All of these will be posted on the “Schoolnet” website:  www.schoolnet.edu.lb.

Project Languages: Arabic, French or English

Programs used: Power Point - Movie Maker - Word - Excel and other that can serve the project

Implementation of the project area of ​​the school curriculum: all educational materials

Coordinators

• Secondary schools’ project coordinators: They are assigned by the Schools’ Principals, after the approval of the Directorate of Secondary Schools. 

• Areas Project Coordinators as assigned by resolution No. 1353 dated 9/27/2010 are: Wadad Elias (Akkar), Tawfiq al-Rumi (North Lebanon), Patricia Khoury (Northern Mount Lebanon), Salam Nour el-Din (Southern Mount Lebanon), Najat Mirza (Beirut ), Nargis Assahily (South Lebanon), Zainab Abbas (Nabatiyeh), Souad Murtada (Bekaa) and Gloria Nehme (Baalbek-Hermel).

For additional information you may contact the Office of “Schoolnet” on one of the following numbers: 01-789683/01-772401

General Coordinator: Abdou Yammine, ICT Educational Projects Coordinator-Ministry of Education and Higher Education