Sandals Foundation volunteers and guests from Sandals Barbados join students at Christ Church Girls Primary school for a photo following the World Ocean's day activity.

Environment, News

June 8, 2015

Healthy ocean, healthy planet

IN observance of World Oceans Day — Monday, June 8 — Sandals Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Sandals Resorts International, took the message of ocean preservation to some 600 students across 12 schools in the territories in which it operates in the Caribbean.

The sessions focused on the various ways mankind uses or benefits from the ocean, the practices or phenomena that threaten it, and what can be done to protect it.

Among the Jamaican schools that participated were Jones Town Primary in Kingston; John Rollins/Success Primary, Chetwood Memorial Primary and St James High in St James; Cove Primary in Hanover; Ocho Rios Primary in St Ann, and Mearnsville All-Age School in Westmoreland.

Cedar Grove Primary in Antigua, Christ Church Girls’ School in Barbados, Gros Islet Primary in St Lucia, Westerhall Secondary in Grenada, and Enid Capron Primary in Turks and Caicos were also part of the Caribbean-wide event.

Here are photo highlights.

500 lbs of good

Deleen Powell (left), public relations officer atthe National Environment and PlanningAgency (NEPA) and Architect/PlannerWinston Quest weigh a bag containing solidwaste collected from Little Plumb Pointduring a clean-up staged by the agency inobservance of World Oceans Day, June 8.NEPA removed more than 500 pounds of solidwaste from the coastline during the four-hourclean-up. The most frequently collected itemswere the remnants of styrofoam products andplastic PET bottles, which the team separatedto faciltate recycling.

Students at Mearnsville All-Age School are busy creating theirposter bearing the message ‘Do not litter the ocean’ as part ofthe World Oceans Day interactive session in which over 70students from Grades 3-6 participated.

Claire Thorpe, visiting student from the University College ofLondon currently pursuing her master’s degree in conservation,takes a photo with students of Mearnsville All-Age school inWestmoreland and their World Oceans Day poster.

Students of Chetwood Memorial Primary School Taneika Hibbert (third right) and Ashley Allen(right) share their interpretation of the World Ocean’s Day theme ‘Healthy Ocean, Healthy Planet’on environment posters. Celebrating with them are Sandals Foundation volunteers.

Taneika Hibbert’s poster

Students of Jones Town Primary in Kingston show off theartwork they made depicting the World Oceans Day 2015 theme.

Students of John Rollins/Success Primary in St James, KhalliaLeslie and Dawayne Hawkins, receive a gift from Sandals RoyalCaribbean Environment, Health, and Safety Manager DexterCummings for their environmental poster created to depict thetheme for World Oceans Day.

‘Do not litter the ocean!’ These students of Mearnsville All-Ageshare a potent message in a very creative way after learningabout the importance of protecting our oceans.

Sandals Foundation Director of Programmes Heidi Clarke shares lessons on ocean conservationwith students at Jones Town Primary School in Kingston.

Sandals Foundation volunteers Denisha Powell (left), environment, health and safety manager atSandals Negril, examines one of the posters made by Grade 4 students at Cove Primary School inHanover, while her colleague, Nicola McGregor from Beaches Negril’s Stewarding Departmentlooks on.

Healthy ocean, healthy planet

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