Prakriti: Environment Education Bus, a mobile resource centre, is a joint initiative of Centre for Environment Education (CEE), BG India and Gujarat Gas Company Limited (GGCL). The resource centre is developed to be primarily used by the youth volunteers in three districts of Gujarat --Surat, Ahmedabad and Bharuch including Ankleshwar to create awareness among the school children, youth and general community about the emerging environmental concerns in their immediate environment.

Prakriti has been developed through a participatory process which included three stakeholders’ workshops, one each at Surat, Bharuch and Ahmedabad; series of meetings, background research, presentation of findings and trials.

Prakriti carries multi-media approach for environmental education which included exhibit panels, interactive models, films and slide shows, games and activities, puppet shows, and few take away communication material like pamphlets, brochures, labels, postcards etc.

Goal of the project

Create an educated and aware task force of youth and school children in Gujarat on key environmental challenges and some possible means to overcome them.

Objectives

- Create environmental awareness among school children, teachers and parents.

- Capacity build youth on using the resource centre effectively.

- Provide resource material support to youth and other organizations to enable them conduct environmental awareness activities and projects.