2017年CRI Sustainability awareness raised among children in Stockholm

 

Swedish Minister for Finance¹ Magadalena Andersson (left), Swedish Minister for Children, the Elderly and Gender² Equality Asa Regner (middle) and World Bank's Senior Director in Gender Caren Grown discussed mainstreaming gender equality budget for better development in Stockholm on May 17, 2017. [Photo: China Plus/Chen Xuefei]

Old newspapers, paper boxes, sticks, trees, bottles... you name it.

Almost everything in the daily recycling circle has been used here on the Stockholm Preschool Day near the city Library.

Hundreds of preschool children have taken part in the event, presenting their ideas on how to make Stockholm an even more sustainable city.

Dita Johansson with the Matteuse preschool in Stockholm says her children, who range in age from 1 to 5 years old, take a keen³ interest in the program.

"We show everything we have been doing together with children for the whole year, the autumn and the spring. It's all the exploring that children have done together with their teachers all the year; in Matteuse we are working with the sustainable resources, it's a lot about exploring water, growing, and all like that, all that you can see here. "

On top of recycling, the young students are also given a chance to make small boats using pine tree bark.

They've also helped create a paper-mache whale.

Kadije is another preschool teacher helping⁴ guide her students through the activities.

"It is a big day for our children today. So everybody comes here to take part in activities, all about what we do in the school and we present them here. And everybody comes here and have a look. Bokstaver like A, B, C , we learn our children from one to three years, so we teach them how to write their name and numbers, you know. "

Older children have also been given a chance to take part.

Select middle school students have put on singing and dancing performances.

Organizers of the events say they hope to instill the idea of sustainability into the students at an early age, with the goal of making sustainability a normal part of their daily lives.

1 finance   

n.财务管理，财政，金融，财源，资金

参考例句：

• She is an expert in finance.她是一名财政专家。
• A finance house made a bid to buy up the entire company.一家信贷公司出价买下了整个公司。

2 gender   

n.（生理上的）性，（名词、代词等的）性

参考例句：

• French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语，所有的名词都有性。
• Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。

3 keen   

adj.热心的；敏锐的；激烈的；锋利的

参考例句：

• There is keen competition between the two motorcar firms.两家汽车公司之间存在着激烈的竞争。
• The children are mad keen to go to the zoo.孩子们非常想去动物园。

4 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。