Environmental education
For SARPI Dorog Kft, both the permanent assurance of technological and industrial safety and involvement with the school-aged generations’ environmental education are fundamental concerns. Each year, hundreds of schoolchildren of this region are involved in the Open Days program. In the past few years, many of Dorog’s schoolchildren participated in the international environment protection competitions organized by Veolia.
2006: Protecting our Environment with Drawings
In 2006, the Paris headquarters of the Veolia Environnement group announced an environment protection competition called "Protecting Our Environment With Drawings." The core message of the program, which was launched under the aegis of UNESCO and in cooperation with Geography Teachers’ Association, is education for environment awareness, which fits into the objectives of the UN Decade in Education For Sustainable Development Program.
Children taking part in this activity carried out research into sustainable development, they designed development plans for changing their immediate surroundings, which was followed by creating a drawing based on their experience to express how Hungarian children imagine the development whether it be of their immediate surroundings or of our planet.
In 2006, the competition attracted thousands of children from 25 countries; including 500 Hungarian pupils aged between 9 to 11Two children and an adult guardian from the winning class were invited to the winners’ international meeting at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris in the first week of June 2006.
2005: Flags around the World
In 2005, the Veolia Environnement group, under the aegis of UNESCO’s French National Commission launched an international campaign "Flags Around the World," aimed at making children receptive to environmental and health issues.
The event was organized by the Veolia Environnement group’s Hungarian businesses on the World Water Day, 22 March 2005.
The message on the winning Hungarian flag was:
"Rivers and woods, spring, summer, autumn, and winter – let all be devoted to my children."
2004: Papyrus around the World
In 2004, Veolia Environnement organized an international environmental drawing competition "Papyrus around the World." Children had to weigh up what they can do for their environment and health at home, in the garden, in the street, during holiday, and then they presented that message to adults as a drawing. The papyrus was a rice-paper attached to a 1.2-metre wide and 25-metre long silk ribbon, rolled on two big wooden blocks, to facilitate transportation. All participant cities had an available area of 80 cm x 80 cm to prepare their own pictures on.
The round-the-world trip started in Paris, with Tien Chin as the first stop, to celebrate the "China Year" festivities in France. The tailored papyrus was especially designed for this purpose in China. Twenty-four cities will host this event worldwide: including Australia and Oceania, East Asia, North America, Northern and Southern Europe and Northwest Africa.
The papyrus arrived at Budapest from Bratislava on 18 May 2004, with illustrated messages of children from 15 cities. Hungary was represented by fourth-grade (10-year-old) children from Homoktövis Primary School in Budapest and fifth-graders (11-year-olds) from Eötvös József Elementary School in Dorog.
The following messages were written on the roll for Hungary:
Homoktövis Elementary School – fourth-grade schoolchildren
The title of the picture was: "Against environmental pollution, for a clean and beautiful Budapest," with the children’s message:
"We would like others to understand how bad it is to live in a dirty environment, and we would like if this could influence people’s behavior in the future so that they attempted to protect our environment for more beautiful surroundings"
Dorog – Eötvös József Elementary School – fifth-grade schoolchildren
The title of the picture was: "The Dorog of the future," with the message:
"We would like to see Dorog even cleaner and more colorful in the future, with selective waste collection realized, and to see city dwellers improve the look of their environment so that they became happier there."
