Campaign week in Timisoara, Romania

The March Of Frogs


Hello! We are the Franks from IRIS Highschool Timisoara,
Romania. Our students from fifth and ten grade join the ENO
Campaign. On 15 th January 2007 our students work hard
and had a lot of fun preparing their materials for this campaign:
Global Warming. They’ve made interviews in our school and in
the neighbourhood.
On 16 th January students walk through Timisoara for asking
people about their march, on 17 th January 2007. In the morning
of 17 th January our students with us, teachers Sorina Petrisor,
Simona Valcan, Carmencita Corches, Ramona Petric, Daniela Grosu,
paid some visits to some important authorities. At 9:00 a.m. we
had a lot of fun when we’ve visited the Tower Hall and the Local Council
were students had a long discussion about our problem. They interviewed
the president of Local Council, Constantin Ostaficiuc and our major,
Gheorghe Ciuhandu. After that we also visited the Ministery of Education
were some inspectors enjoied our presentation. Here are some pictures
with students and teachers and their activities.


At Local Council


At ministry of education


The March Of Frogs

Campaign in Pasaka, Lithuania

Hello,

we are a kindergarden from Vilnius (Lithuania) which
is called "Pasaka". The 5-7 year olds from our kindergarden
care about all global warming -related issues because there
hasn't been such a warm winter in this country for 70 years.
The kids have made many frogs of different shapes and using
different materials. We also discussed how the frogs could
be saved. The teachers gathered lots of information about
global warming and prepared a presentation for parents.

Greetings (very warm ones) from Lithuania,

Jolita

Campaign in Czech Republic

Jitka, CZ02

We spent an enjoyable day. Members of Eco club
ivn Center for free time called Domecek and pupils
from Basic school in the village Choryne went to
the streets, offices, markets, took pledges and
sang the Frank Fredy song. We put the Fredy frogs
into the libraries and another places. This day we
obtained more then 300 pledges. We presented this
compaign in radio - just at 12 o´clock, when the
March of the frogs started. Articals and photos
about global warming, ENO programme and this activity
appeared in these local newspapers /Valassky denik,
Pravo, Zpravodaj, Echo. Film Unconvenient Truth will
be performed in cinema in our town in May.

March of Frogs in Finnish TV

Hi!

Here is a link ( you need Windows media player):
http://nettitv.mtv3.fi/nettitv_uutiset/a/videoikkuna-uutiset.shtml?91272.wmv#

Unfortunately it is in Finnish but hope you can get some feelings of it.

A video clipse and info from Galati. Romania

Our school hosted during this week a contest named Urban
Pollution where students and teachers debated the causes and
effects of city pollution on the climate and the environment.
At this activity also took part representatives from the Nature
Science Museum.
On 17 January we joyfully took part at the "March of the Frogs".
On this day our students and teachers have met with the folks
from Galati, on the street. They have talked to them about the
climate change and its effects on our city, country and world,
trying to convince them at lest to respect a chosen pledge,
offering them ENO leaflets.
At the end of the march, balloons with our pledges are set
free towards the sky, carrying across the world our wish to live
and have a healthier planet, to protect the environment so that
our descendants to rejoice at the beauties of a clean Earth.

Best regard,
Ms. Popescu Madalina from National College "Mihail Kogalniceanu"
Galati, Romania

A Green week in Tecuci, Romania

A GREEN WEEK IN TECUCI , ROMANIA !

Students and teachers from our school , Highschool Spiru
Haret from Tecuci , Romania will take part in the following
activity during the Campain week 15 - 21 Jan 2007 .

On 18 Jan 2007 , our highschool hosted 'TO WALK CAREFULLY
ON THE GROUND' A CONTEST ORGANISED BY TEACHERS
CHIRITA MARIANA AND ONICA MONICA. At this activity
will take part teachers from our highschool and the headmistress
CRISTOVICI RODICA. Students presented posters , a panel ,
projects regarding causes and effects of pollution ' climate change ,
the march of frogs the launch on the water of little boats with pieces
of advice how to protect and preserve the environement and also a
tree with pledges . Our major pledge is from now on 'TO WALK
CAREFULLY ON THE GROUND'

BEST REGARD,

ONICA MONICA from Tecuci.

Campaign at Vilniaus “Juventos” gimnazija, Lithuania

We, the pupils of Vilniaus “Juventos” gimnazija,
Lithuania, are happy to take part in the ENO Climate
Change Campaign together with many schools all over
the world. We fully agree that climate change is a
global problem nowadays and during the event each of
us has a great chance to express their opinions on
this issue.

While doing the first activity, we found information
and made investigations on the topic “Impacts of Climate
Change in Lithuania”. Using those data, we wrote articles
about the impact of climate change on natural vegetation
and fauna, agriculture and forests, and, of course, on
weather. Later on we made the presentations for our schoolmates.

A part of our activities was the gallup where we asked
questions about people’s attitude towards climate change.
Our pupils made interviews and submitted the answers online.
We’re glad that so many countries have participated in the
gallup and Lithuania was one of the leaders.

Also, we made a frog of recycled paper and now Frank is
“living” in our classroom. We, our friends, parents and
teachers made pledges and put them into the frog. After
we had collected the pledges, we submitted some of them
to ENO Pledge Bank.

While working on this project, we’ve come to the conclusion
that there are many little things we can do to make a difference.
If we try, most of us can do our part to reduce the amount of
greenhouse gases that we put into the atmosphere. We understand
that we can control climate change and pledge to become responsible
citizens.

In conclusion, we’d like to thank our teachers, Galina Bogdanova
and Kirsi Snellman, for encouraging and helping us with our activities.
We’re looking forward to participating in the next event."

School 2, Galati, Romania - Glimpses of a beautiful project

"Since the very beginning of the project, most of our pupils
aged 7-14 have shown interest in its theme; that's why they
enthusiastically have participated in all the activities adding
their own creativity, originality and freshness of ideas
characteristic to all children.

Working in teams, making visual materials, sending pledges,
disseminating information about the climate change, competing
with other schools in our city at workshop sessions, all these
activities have turned the whole school into a very active centre
in promoting the cause and intentions of ENO Project.

January 17 was the coronation of this year's Project as the
purpose of the "March of the Frogs" was reached: lots of people
in the streets and in the public institutions could hear about ENO.

We are happy and proud to have acted as responsible citizens of
Planet Earth. Thank you, ENO Project promotors in Finland for
giving us this opportunity. May LOVE, PEACE, JOY and WISDOM
reign on Earth and among all people."

Pupils, parents, teachers

Georgiana Munteanu - School coordinator of ENO Project

School 2 Galati team is ready to present their poster made
in the workshop



just the first in the March of the Frogs; small but full of
energy and joy




a short stop at the Court of Justice




marching, singing and offering ENO leaflets to the people
in the street



children attaching and sending ENO messages with the
baloons

the baloons are set free to take the children's wishes and hopes
everywhere

Campaign in Ljubljana, Slovenia

"We have organized an exhibition with purpose to warn people
about climate changes. Our frogs were collecting pledges to make
small changes in our lives which will help reduce Co2 emissions."




OUR CONTRIBUTION TO MINIMIZE CLIMATE CHANGES

We are the pupils of the secondary school of construction and economy.
We were told about the climate changes. So we were talking what causes
the changes and what will be the consequences. In discussion we came
to the conclusion that every one could do something. We concluded that
small steps we make together could have a great influence at climate
changes. So to call other people attention we drew traffic signs for warnings,
prohibitions and informations with sketches of climate changes. We will
organize an exhibition of our work and we will add our oaths.

Ada Perko,
Secondary School of Civil Engineering, Land Surveying and Economics
Ljubljana, SLOVENIA

News from Children's Book Circle, Sri Lanka

"Our Environment program will focus on 20th in Colombo.
There will be a big plant procession. The children will start
their procession from Kannangara College to city Police station.
We plant some trees their and return to college and plant the rest.

This is initial program and after that we send this message to 400
Police stations, 700 children's reading centers and children libraries
and schools. Environ Ministry donate us valuable plants. Mr. Riency
Perera, SSP, Director , Police Public Relations help us to success this
national valued program. Media will help us to take this message to
the national. We'll post our photos and video clips later.

CLIMATE CHANGES;

Last week we had largest earth-slips and flood in the
recent history. Over 25 people died and about 400
people were injured. Over 200,000 people were displaced.

Thanks!

D.Ambalampitiya

Campaign Day And The March Of Frogs in Joensuu, Finland

The day started with "An inconvenient Truth",
a documentary film by Al Gore. About 400
students saw this film.



The March of Frogs, 3rd graders, Pataluoto School

The March of Frogs at Louhioja School, Finland

Hello! We are the Franks from Louhioja School, Finland.
There are five of us! One of us went to Uimaharju School
and collected pledges from the sixth-graders. The rest of
us stayed at Louhioja School and Pekkala School and collected
pledges from the school staff, students, teachers and families.


On Wednesday, the 17th of January our ENO group went
to the cinema in Joensuu to see the film called
“An Inconvenient Truth”.

Hello from Romania

Hello from Romania

On January,the 17th,2007, Blue Flower Kindergarten,
no.207,from Bucharest,Romania,will also join the Eno Campaign:
March of the Frogs.

For a couple of days our children between 5 and 7 years old
had prepared little frogs and toys made by recyclated materials
and had invited important people from our local community and
also from specialized educational press.

They are ready to pick up as many pledges as they can from
responsible citizens, trying to make a change to the global effort in
controlling the climate change.

Best regards,
Blue Flower Kindergarten.

"Turn off the lights, no stanbys" campaign in England

Larches House Short Stay School (Preston, England):

The focus of our campaign here is to turn off all lights
on rooms not occupied and not to leave any equipment
on standby.

Some of your own pledges

So far over 2500 pledges have been submitted in the ENO Pledge
Bank, to control the climate change. Most of people have chosen
their pledges from pledges available but some of them have made
their own pledges.

Here are some own pledges by people

Photos from Sighisoara, Romania

Special chat room for participants

To get more interaction we have launched a new chat
room for participating schools and groups. You need
a login and password. If you are not ENO teacher
(who use their logins and passwords) you can use
this login and password:

login: visitor
password: change


ENTER THE CHAT ROOM HERE.

The results of ENO Gallup

"Daily Activities And Climate Change"

This gallup was about daily activities and attitudes towards
climate change. It was launched 12th of October and closed
12th of January 2007. Gallup was available on the web.
Students also made interviews and submitted the answers online.

There were 4363 people who participated this gallup in 87 countries.
Most of the answers came from Finland (24%), Taiwan (21%), Iran (13%)
and Romania(11%).

See below some interesting results overall, how children and youth
(under 20 yrs) answered, how their answers were different around
the world and age and attitudes to climate change.

ENO Gallup Results as pdf

ENO Gallup Results as *.Doc

Campaign Week Started Today!

Terve!

The time has come to show the results and spend the ENO
Climate Change Campaign Week, 15-21 January 2006.

You can find some updates in the blog. Feel free to send
your comments in the guestbook during the week.

I wish you all a successful week when spreading the message
in your local communities and on the web!

An active week in Galati, Romania!

Students and teacher from our school, National College "Mihail Kogalniceanu"
from Galati, Romania) will take part in the following activities during the
Campaign week 15-21 Jan 2007:

1. On 16 Jan 2007 at a contest named "Workshop" where students will show
   our school, their pledges , Frank The Frog, mascot for the campaign and will
   make a poster with it, from recyclable materials. This contest is being held by
   Grupul Scolar "Radu Negru" and are participating students from all the schools
   from our city especially who joined ENO Climate Change Campaign.
2. On 17 Jan 2007 at 13.00 we are taking part at The March Of Frogs. Our starting
   point is Palatul Telefoanelor, than along Brailei Street, accompanied by School
   nr. 2. At this march our students will distribute their pledges to the local people
   both on street and in institutions (Transilvania Bank, Leumi Bank, Commercial Bank,
   Raifeisen Bank and Vodafone). The students will wear placards with Frank The Frog
   mascot and green helium balloons. At the end of the march, students will release
   the balloons out. Each and every one of them will carry out across the world our
   pledges, witch are tied from the balloons' string.
3. On 18 Jan 2007, our school will host "Urban pollution", a contest organized by
   teachers Ms. Popescu Madalina, Ms. Ganea Mariana, Ms. Bulgaru Mariana.
   At this contest will take past students from schools from our town especially
   those who joined ENO Climate Change Campaign. Students will present projects
   regarding, causes and effects of urban pollution.

Best regard,
Popescu Madalina from Galati, Romania

Preparations in HEV, Istanbul, Turkey

Hisar Educational Foundation Schools formed a core group for
ENO activities. They made an article about the Climate Change
after a detailed search on the effects of it, on Turkey and
especially on Istanbul. They also made an audio story about
the issue. People in the photo are Cemre, teacher Tugba Elif Ercan
and Pynar.

For the activity day, this two students on the photograph
will play the song of frog to the school (piano performance) and
present more about climate change and pledges before this
performance. Frogs are placed to the entrance, library and
market on the school way.

Download their article

Listen to their audio story

Preparations- Polhov Gradec Primary School, Slovenia

We have been discussing environmental issues in various ways. Pupils
aged 6 to 9 have been spending their art lessons creating Franks.
Pupils aged 10 to 14 have been involved in discussions about the
environment. They've all made New Year's resolutions as ENO pledges
and have also invited their family and friends to do so. The 7th and
8th graders have interviewed the local community about the climate
change. The 9th graders watched Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and
developed a discussion. These days, we are getting ready for the
final event on 17th January.

Photos of Frank The Frogs needed!

According to comments around the world the march of frogs
will be a very popular event! We would like to get photos from
each march to be arranged. After your march you can either
put photos online and send a link or send 1-2 photos with 2-3
sentences to photos@enoprogramme.org

Last minute comments around the world

Teheran, Iran

"In Iran seven schools have followed the climate change
activities seriously. We have made a committee of the
teachers who are responsible for ENO activities We are
going to have a session on Saturday 13 January to discuss
how we are going to attend the March of Frogs and how
we are going to find homes for our frogs. We made about
18 frogs in three schools.
We are making a poster about the modern life and its
consequences too. Wish all the frogs a stable climate."
Mariam Mokhtari, ENO Teacher

Baku, Azerbaidjan

Hello ENO frends .We have chosen the best MopdelFranky
Frog for the campaign who will carry a handwoven national
bag to put his pledges in. Though we have just opened
the schools we have prepared posters and ENO emblems
to make it a huge ceremony attracting community members
and two Shopping Malls nearby. In this we are greatly
supported by parents. We are looking forward to recruiting
more participants due to the show programme that will
accompany the ceremony . Our students will sing ENO songs
and and dance frog dance too.
Irada Aliyeva, ENO teacher in Azerbaidjan

Kontiolahti, Finland

Hello all ENO people. We have done six frogs and right now
we are making posters about turn down, switch off, recycle
and walk. On 16.1. and 17.1. we are going to present our
works and our Franks will collect the pledges in our school
and in shopping center nearby.
Kalle Rintala, ENO teacher at Lehmo School, Finland

Harare, Zimbabwe

We have just opened schools and we are sharing the
climate change materials and ideas to our fellow pupils
and the community at large. WE LOVE YOU ENO!
Nyarai Tunjera, ENO Teacher in Zimbabwe

Franks are ready for the march in Kazakhstan

School-gymnasium # 10,
Ust-Kamenogorsk

ENO teacher Galina and her
students, ready for the march
with Frank The Frogs. School
has already started the pledge
bank action at school.

Campaign Day And The March Of Frogs

The campaig week will be very soon, 15-21 January 2007.
During the week we will:

1) Publish the results of gallup in the blog
2) Publish the summary of contents in the pledge bank
3) March with our frogs and collect pledges

See the campaign week/day at Pataluoto School, Joensuu (Finland):

1) Poster sessions at school
2) Frogs for pledges at school
3) An Inconvenient Truth for 6th and 9th graders at the cinema (WED 17)
4) The March Of Frogs (3rd graders and some 6th graders)

You can see the plan for march in the city centre and the places where
we leave our frogs. Let us know about your march, send email to
mika@enoprogramme.org

Preparations around the world: India

India

* We have collected the articles about ten, on Climate Change in vernacular language
(Tamil) and in English. We are sending them to the local news papers for publication.
*To bring awareness among the local community, we prepared a questionnaire based
on the model given online ,students interviewed the local people and got the information.

Best wishes,
vijayalakshmi.
Alpha Matriculation School,Chennai, INDIA.

First planters and pledges 2007

Croatia

"ENO Students in Gymnasium Dr. Ivan Kranjcev Djurdjevac were
the first participants in the ENO Tree Planting Campaign 2007.
3^rd of January 2007, students planted 13 trees. Trees were
planted in the school backyard and they are fine for now. We hope
that they will survive the winter and they will proudly stand as a
reminder for us and the others that the nature is everything we have
and we should do our best to save The Nature. "
Read the full report here with additional photos.

Kenya

A pledge of 10 000 trees by MKYIER

Mount Kenya Youth Initiative for Ecosystem Restoration (MKYIER) is a
community-based organization founded by graduates’ volunteers from
various fields (IT, Forestry, Journalist, Dentist, Mass media, and project
officer in other NGOs).

" We have established 22 tree nurseries in 22 local schools, and are
going to buy variety seeds to donated to the schools and also to enable us
expand to other schools in the region these is in preparation of March the
raining season we shall have plenty of seedlings to plant with the school
kids and the neighbouring community."

Find more about this organisation here:
http://www.mkyier.org/

Sri Lanka

"Arunalu Youth Programme has been organized to raise a nursery with
5000 plants to plant it during the rainy season that begins in mid April.
We have some pockets of forests that was mismanaged and destroyed
by the irresponsible hands.Hence as it need to maintain the biodiversity
of the area we decided to carry out reforestation campaign with the assistance
of other organizations and we take the responsibility of raising required plants.
Further we started awareness programme to educate school children in
this regard and it will continue."

Thanks

Dilanka

Rodrigo

ENO Tree Planting Campaign 2007

ENO Programme has made a pledge to plant a total of
100 000 trees by the end of this year. A special website
for the campaign is now available where participants can
make their pledges and report their plantings. You can
see the numbers of trees left on the web.

Schools, children or youth groups are invited to join
this campaign. Trees can be planted during the year and
information after planting are asked to be submitted to
the ENO Tree Database. In addition there will be two global
tree planting days arrraged by the ENO Programme.

Another goal is to spread this activity to every country.
This campaign will not only be for environmental protection
but for international collaboration and peace. It is linked
to UNEP's Billion Tree Campaign that was launched in November 2006.

Tree Planting Campaign is also an act against the climate
change. Trees and forests absorbs carbon dioxide and acts as a sink.

Get involved here and make your pledge:
http://eno.joensuu.fi/campaign2007

An Inconvenient Truth for campaign week!

Here in my city we have asked the local
cinema theatre to perform this documentary
film for students in the campaign day,
17th of January. We will take our frogs with
us, march with them and put them in some public
places like city hall, library etc.

This film will be available in public during two
weeks after us. Schools have been interested in
the film and already two sessions are sold-out.
Great for local awareness here!

I recommend you could also see this film (if you
haven't already). Let us know if you do!It is
available also in DVD. You find more information
about the film here: http://www.climatecrisis.net

Did you know that Al Gore appreciates ENO Programme?
When we started in 2000 he was a vice-president in US.
He sent us a letter you can see here.

Temp records , floods

Here's some picks:

Last December was the warmest December in Finland
ever measured. According the Finnish Meteorological
Institute this can happen a couple of times in 1000 years!
In Sweden it was also warmest since their records began in 1756.

Many places have suffered from floods in Africa and
other continents. For instance I heard today from our
ENO school in Israel about a flood in Zin river in Negev
desert, find info and video here:
http://imshin.net/?p=490

Creative activities in Romania

Happy new year 2007! Have you made your pledge for this year?
Please do it here.

Teachers and students at the National College "Mihail Kogalniceanu"
have been creative- see their activities below:
























The pupils of the eleventh grade C from our school, guided by
teacher Mrs Madalina Popescu made the mascot Frank. Frank is
made from polystyrene . On top of we glued co loured paper. In
this box we place our ENO pledge. The pupils who made Frank are:
Calin Raluca, Pacuraru Anca, Craciun Cristina, Hirjoaba Ionut.Also,
in December the pupils of our school have made posters with Frank.




















School organized a fashion show "Odd Outfits". The clothes were
made from recyclable materials and were presented by the students
from ninth and tenth grades. The teachers Mrs Mariana Ganea and
Mrs Mariana Bulgaru through their guidance and activities have succeeded
in stimulating the pupils interest in protecting the environment.
At the end of the activity the pupils established the importance and the
meaning of the slogans:

• Buy ecological products for a healthy environment
• Separate the waste
• Use less plastic bags
• Use the garbage as fertilizer
• Water means life
• Turn off the lights and reduce heating
• Do not use cars for short travels