Wednesday, February 11, 2009
lessons on value of clean water
TRENTON -- For the ninth year in a row, AmeriCorps
members with NJPIRG's Community Water Watch program
launched their annual education week, bringing hands-on
water quality lessons last month to students from Trenton,
Newark, Camden and Atlantic City in a tribute to the service
and civic engagement teachings of the late Martin Luther
King Jr.
Nine AmeriCorps members from NJ Public Interest
Research Group's (NJPIRG) Community Water Watch, an
AmeriCorps program, as well as 55 student volunteers from 9
college campuses are traveling the state to bring hands-on
lessons to classrooms during their education week.
This
years theme is "Water: We H2Owe it." The
interactive lessons show that clean plentiful water is a
precious commodity and essential to the health of our
state's communities.
"The time is now to educate our youth about the
solutions to the water pollution problems that plague our
state," said Liz Glynn, NJCWW program director.
"We're working to instill in these students a
lasting ethic of civic engagement, environmental stewardship
and community service."
