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PEAS, the acronym for the Programme for Environmental Awareness in Schools, is a nationwide network of school children in India who are committed to building an awareness that will lead to protecting the environment. PEAS believes that children can make a difference, and it is engaged in activities for an awareness as well as action programme.

Dr. Ken Gnanakan is the PEAS founder and national president. “Why children? Very simply… When children speak, adults listen! Children need to make their voices heard and PEAS wants to facilitate this,” he says.

“The future is theirs and so they need to get involved even now. PEAS is not an individual programme, nor even a few isolated events. It is a movement committed to education. PEAS aims to work along with and within schools in order to build up an eco-culture. Teachers, administrators and children together need to join together,” he adds.

The schools in the PEAS network receive a quarterly magazine on environmental issues, which also carries articles, poems and short stories written by the students. Besides, these schools participate in annual regional students’ conferences, regular workshops for students and teachers, and a national students’ conference once in two years.

The PEAS schools are now preparing for the 7th National Students’ Conference, focused on pollution and health concerns and scheduled for November 16 to 18 at the Tagore International School in Gurgaon, Haryana state.

Further details: http://www.peasnet.org.