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Kids Caring for Our Coast

Kids Caring for Our Coast

Project AWARE Foundation recently inspired over 100 children on the northern beaches of Sydney, Australia to become AWARE Kids.  

A giant mural created at Balmoral Beach engaged children on their school holidays to think about marine rubbish and what we can all do about it.  The Caring for Our Coast event hosted by Mosman Council encouraged children to look after coastal environments. Children joined Project AWARE to glue beach rubbish onto a marine scene mural. After discussing facts about marine debris the enthusiastic kids coloured and cut out beautiful underwater species to feature on the clean and healthy side of the ocean.  Messages about protecting our oceans were added to the scene including "Keep our beaches clean, save the sharks and just fish three times a year!"

60 students from the Northern Beaches Christian School learned about marine debris and plastic pollution when they cleaned up Collaroy Beach in November.  Teacher Julia Small said "The presentation was interactive, informative, exciting, challenging and engaging, a difficult task with 60 students at the beach! We had the most wonderful discussion when we returned to school and the children shared very thoughtful ideas and asked fantastic questions about what they had learned during the excursion." 

Teams of students collected a variety of rubbish and discussed plastic pollution. They shared ideas about where the rubbish goes and discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the same size as Queensland.  Visit Project AWARE for more information about AWARE Kids.

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