Our Eco School Partner in Uganda, Africa: St Aloysius Primary School

St Aloysius Primary School is a day and boarding mixed primary school found in Western Uganda, Mbarara District, Uganda, East Africa with a pupil enrolment of 1095 pupils.

The school got attracted to join the Eco schools programme. It applied to join the programme and it was taken on.

The Eco school committee has carried out an environmental review and as result the learners together have come up with the following Eco codes at school to influence behavior of the learners and the community towards environmental management of the resources within the school and the community.

The Eco codes are:

-Keep off the grass

-Always sort waste before disposal

-Turn off water tap after use

-Turn organic matter into manure

-Use litterbins to dispose waste

-Protect trees in the compound among others.

The school has done the following to protect the environment and planet earth:

-The learners have planted 45 trees within the school compound                                                         -Have covered bare ground in the compound with grass                                                                       -Learners in each school year sort waste before disposing it                                                                 -We are harvesting water into water storage tanks to avoid wastage and the Eco pupils’   parliament is encouraging learners to use it sparingly.                                                                          -The learners have fenced off the green belt on the school compound                                                  -Turning organic matter into manure