Since the re-launch of Straits Green’s “playground by the sea” in August last year, the community park in Seri Tanjung Pinang has become host to a project called Think Green and is a hotspot of sustainable eco-friendly practices.
Think Green has been made possible by a number of organisations – the project is driven by Eastern & Oriental Berhad (E&O) under the E&O A.R.T. (Action, Reach Out, Transform) community relations programme and supported by the Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) and Cultivate Central. Together, these organizations worked with 40 children in Standards 4 and 5, and two teachers each from three local schools, namely SK Tanjong Tokong, SK (C) Hun Bin and SK (T) Azad. Hosting events every Friday, Think Green brings the children to Straits Green to play games and learn about gardening, growing vegetables, recycling and composting, as well as entrepreneurship.
On February 15 this year, executive council member in charge of Local Government, Traffic Management and Flood Mitigation Chow Kon Yeow hosted a special event at Straits Green to commemorate the work done thus far and hand out certificates to the many children involved in this project. With an early start, the children were involved in games such as “Web of Life”, where they discovered how all the players in an ecosystem depend on each other to survive. Afterwards, a quick-fire Q&A session between the children and CAP took place to test what the children had learned over the previous months. Herb and vegetable containers that the children made from recycled plastic bottles back in October were still flourishing in the background.
