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A week about Sustainable Dubai: Day 1 – Air pollution and Plant a Seed (Give a Ghaf)
In collaboration with Goumbook, Eedama designed, organized and implemented a Sustainable Dubai Week for the Week Without Walls Program at GEMS World Academy. The purpose of this program was to introduce students to some of the main components when speaking about environmental sustainability. We had a focus for every day of the week and we…
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Eedama and The Mawada Project at the Ripe Market (Zaabeel Park, Dubai, on Fridays)
Bring purpose to life with community-service, social responsibility and sustainability! Want to make a difference in the world, but don’t know how? Keep hearing about taking care of the environment and sustainability and not sure what that means for you? Join us every Friday at Ripe Market to pick up cool new skills and learn…
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Composting workshops: AFLEC Dubai and Raffles WA primary school students designed their own food bins
In February and March, Eedama’s instructors Erika and Ounsi ran several composting workshops with Grade 5 students. After a quick chat about the importance of food, we all tried to evaluate honestly the amount of food we waste: It turns out that on average, students as well as adults waste one fourth to one third…
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Sustainable Wellspring Beirut
Collaboration between Eedama and Grade 9 Wellspring students: Eedama instructors have been working in the frame of the ‘Community Action Service’ hours with Grade 9 students from Wellspring Beirut. They decided altogether to write some blog posts about this experience. This page contains the first writings of the students, it will progressively be improved and…
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استضافت إذاعة مونت كارلو الدولية أنسي الضعيف، مؤسِّس إدامة
استضاف برنامج كافيه شو المهندس اللبناني أنسي الضعيف، للحديث عن مشروع “إدامة” الذي أسسه منذ أكثر من عام في الإمارات العربية المتحدة. تسعى “إدامة” إلى إقامة مشاريع تربوية تتعلق بالتوعية البيئية لدى طلاب المدارس، لتنمية اهتمامهم بالوسط الذين يعيشون به إن كان طبيعياً أم عمرانياً، وذلك من خلال ورشات تربوية عملية تمكنهم من الاطلاع على…
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Compost and gardening project at Philadelphia Private School – Dubai
We have started last month a Compost and gardening project at Philadelphia School Dubai. Students are planning how to collect food, raise awareness and build an actual garden. Implementation starts next week! Moving forward with the composting project at Philadelphia Private School – Dubai! We are so proud of the work they have…
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My Aquafarm: an educational program about aquaponics for Sharjah Youth Centers kids
Eedama handled 4 series of 4 workshop for the children of Sharjah Youth Centers, in which they learned about Aquaponics and how the fishes depend on the plants to clean the water while the plants depend on the fishes to grow as they absorb the nitrogen transformed from fish feces by bacteria. The workshop also…
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مزرعتي المائية: برنامج لتعليم الإستزراع النباتي السمكي في مراكز الفل في إمارة الشارقة
كما نفذت ورشة بعنوان “اكوابونيكس” ، لنشر الوعي البيئي لدى الأطفال في مجال الزراعة العضوية، وتعريفهم بمدى مساهمتها في حماية الموارد الطبيعية. والاستدامة، قدمها محمد جمعة من شركة إدامة ، شارحاً للأطفال عن نظام اكوابونيكس، وكيفية إتمام عملية الزراعة من خلال تربية الأسماك للاستفادة من فضلاتها لتكون، سماد طبيعي للنباتات وكيفية انتقاله من أحواض السمك…
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Regent school students visit The Sustainable City
After a preparation that took some time (as you might remember), and despite the fact that the City is not yet fully functional, we took Year 4 students from Regent International School to The Sustainable City. They could see a number of features that make this City a unique urban planning experiment in Dubai. They…
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An informative day: Reducing, reusing and recycling
Waste management is one of the most important environmental issues the world and its governments are facing. When it comes to people, many of us know that waste is a problem, but don’t have a clear idea of what to do to solve it. We, for example, mix sometimes Recycle and Reuse. Is using the…