Starting a new Project in #GrowingAliveExperience Cycle

Dear Friends and Like-minded People,

Do you remember that last school year we piloted an educational-practical program for growing seedlings from seeds together with the students of Malkoch Gymnasium?

We are pleased to inform you that we are launching a new cycle of the #GrowingAliveExperience program. This time, with the support of the Embassy of Sweden and EcoContact, we are expanding the program to 4 schools: 2 from the Right Bank + 2 from the Left Bank of the Dniester.

The #GrowingAliveExperience program is an internal, interdisciplinary project in each school, involving practical activities with elements from various subjects: Biology-Botany, Natural Science, Geography, Handicrafts, Native and Foreign Languages, Drawing-Visual Arts...

The goal of the program is to guide students through a personal, living experience of growing trees from seeds into a mature grove. Every operation is performed by the children themselves! Through these activities, students gain a personal, living connection with Nature, as well as an understanding of the importance of forests and the need to protect them.

This year, forest walks and nursery work are joined by a written essay or visual art project competition.

Here is the Regulation for this Competition:

The contest "The Forest and Its Inhabitants" is held within the framework of the project

"Active Citizens for a Healthy Environment

and Green Justice".

The organizers of the competition are civil society organizations:

A.O. “EcoContact”, “Contracting Authority” Public Association “Lumina Renașterii Omului – LuRenOm”, “Ecostrategii”

“Doctors for Ecology”, “Akkolada”;

1. The competition aims to foster environmental awareness and students’ creativity, encouraging literary and artistic expression.

2. Participation rules

   1. Both individuals and creative teams may participate;

   2. The competition has two categories:

- A self-written essay (no more than one notebook page);

- A drawing illustrating the essay-story (no more than one drawing on a sketchbook sheet)

3. The main characters of the essay should be the FOREST, as well as animals, birds, fish, insects, amphibians, or plants living in the forest.

4. Participants’ age – from 12 to 15 years (inclusive);

Competition timeline

5. Competition start – December 21, 2023.

6. Results announcement – March 21, 2024, on the International Day of Forests;

7. The time and place for the award ceremony will be announced additionally to the winners.

8. Winners will receive prizes and diplomas, and a collection of essays about the forest and its inhabitants.

9. Participants will receive the collection of essays and certificates. Also, an invitation to all project trips and excursions.

1. Other

   1. By submitting an application, the participant agrees that their essay may be published on the organizers’ website and social networks;

   2. By applying, the participant consents to the processing of personal data necessary for the competition’s implementation and duration.

2. Contacts

   1. Address: 4500, Lomonosova, 31 “v” - 2, Dubăsari

NGO “Doctors for Ecology”

2. Contact phone: +37369635195 Stepanova Elena Anatolyevna

All works including the application, essay and drawing should be sent to the following email address: dr.ecology2000@gmail.com

ANNEX 1

APPLICATION

for participation in the contest “The Forest and Its Inhabitants”