EYA launches high school tour

By Elle Morrell

Young environmentalists are gearing up to start the Environmental Youth Alliance's new high school tour for 1993. EYA aims to reach up to 200 high schools around the country, equipped with the latest edition of EYA News and a slide show outlining the world environment crisis and EYA's solutions.

The aim of the tour is to encourage students to get active at school and also involved in broader environmental campaigns.

The presentation is hard hitting, fun and engaging, says Sam Wainwright from Sydney EYA. It highlights the major issues affecting the environment, their causes and solutions. The slide show poses fundamental questions and asks young people to think about the consequences of our actions today.

“EYA certainly believes it is possible to change worldwide practices, and in fact we don't have any choice if we want a future to live for. With the disappointment of UNCED in setting any binding targets and the failure by world leaders to take up the fundamental questions related to the environment, the burden weighs heavily on young people to get active today so that we will really make a difference

for our future”, says Wainwright.

“This is why the presentation encourages young people to learn about the issues so that they are empowered to fight for an inhabitable future.

“With this information students can get together and organise their own school environment group as part of the national and international EYA network and the broader movement for environmental justice.”

Sydney EYA is launching its tour with a day workshop to preview the slide show, have presentations on public speaking and teach environmental activists how to involve people at schools. This will be on Saturday, January 30, at the EYA office, 245 Castlereagh Street in the city.

EYA's fourth national conference will be held in Sydney, April 9-10.

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