Mobile Environment Education Programme

Dialog Telekom PLC, Sri Lanka’s leading telecommunications provider recently joined hands with the Central Environmental Authority (CEA), the Biodiversity & Elephant Conservation Trust (BECT) and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature & Natural Resources (IUCN) to launch a unique environmental education programme for children. The Mobile Environment Education Programme (MEEP) aims to raise awareness on natural resources and biodiversity among future generations while making them ambassadors for the protection of biodiversity in the long-term.

Dialog Telekom has undertaken to be the initiator of the MEEP programme by setting up the entire mobile unit which will carry a series of workshops to 150 schools by the end of this year. While providing the principal funding for the entire project, Dialog Telekom will also develop suitable technologies to enhance environmental education among rural schools in Sri Lanka. The MEEP project will be initiated through a series of mobile workshops which will be delivered in 150 schools throughout this year. These workshops will be carried out through the MEEP van which will be fully equipped with necessary technologies to deliver the workshops in the most interactive manner possible to schools across the island.

The content and material which will be used at the workshops was developed by BECT and was reviewed and approved by the CEA and IUCN. BECT would play a frontline role in entire project by delivering the information to over 37,000 school children ranging from eight to eighteen years of age while IUCN would be continuously reviewing the programme and contribution towards the improvement of the workshop.

The best ‘green’ effort made by the schools subsequent to the programme will be judged and the best school will be rewarded, which will also work towards instilling a long term sense of understanding of the benefits of environmental consciousness among school children. Commenting on this further Mr. Mothilal De Silva, Chief Group Corporate Officer said “Dialog Telekom has always recognized the importance of maintaining biodiversity within the environment. Through this project we will be able to use our technology towards raising a sense of environmental consciousness amongst the future generations of Sri Lankans who will then be able to reap the benefits of well balanced and diverse eco system.”

Dialog Telekom’s Corporate Responsibility practice focuses on reaching out to all segments of society regardless of demographic disparity, to enrich the nation through inclusion. The company is committed to serving the nation in support of national development goals through its community outreach initiatives while maintaining highest ethics in operational spheres by good governance. The best practices imbued through its Corporate Responsibility initiatives have earned Dialog three consecutive World GSM Awards.