GIIS Balestier students participated in ‘Clean & Green Singapore Carnival’, an annual event organized by National Environment Agency on November 4, 2017 and also took part in ‘Compost Making Workshop’ on 5th and 6th November, 2017. The students were privileged to perform Percussion band using recyle materials like drums, bucket, biscuit and oil tins and to conduct workshop on Aerobic compost making using kitchen scraps.

Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for Economic and Social Policies, was the honourable Guest of Honour at the event. The main aim is to inspire every individual to care and protect the environment by adopting clean, green and sustainable living. 

It was an amazing journey for the students, the green champions, to showcase the compost making using everyday kitchen scraps , dry leaves, and plain youghurt for the visitors, which made it truly experiential for them. All the visitors who visited the exhibition were given a pack of compost to take home.

Few testimonials from few visitors, who visited the Compost Making Workshop, are as below:

Maria Teng - To use natural waste effectively, which is cost effective and also effective for the environment,.. We can have a great environment for all.

Low Khee How, teacher Corporation School- The method is simple, cost effective way to care for the environment.

Amarnath.C - The method is simple and impressed with the way kids explained the process. Can prepare the composite at home using wasted and use that composite for gardening. As I’m running gardening IG, this will definitely help me and my team.

Students created awareness of maintaining clean and green places through musical programme and also taught the technic of growing own organic food at virtually zero cost by using the kitchen scraps, thus saving the environment of landfill emission of green house gases.