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Some of our problems are:
Some of our questions are:
1.- What's your name and what is your task here?
2.- Did you know about these problems from Spain? What's your opinion about?
3.- Do you have any suggestion to resolve these problems?
4.- Who must start these actions?
5.- Where do you think we will address our problems?
Interviewing Spanish representatives
1. Do you know these problems (presented on our posters and the website? Yes, we know these problems, but we didn’t think that there were so serious…
2. What do you think about these pictures? We think these pictures are real and impacting.
3. Who must begin these actions or these campaigns in order to make aware the problems? It will be better telling these problems to your village council or region ... not starting in the Environment or Health Minister.
4. If it is so important to have a clean environment Why the environment is so dirty in ours cities? We think the cleanness is not so neglected in Spain
5. What can we do? We suggest to motivate the students with quiz or prizes to compete with others schools. To be published at the newspapers, and the TV. To continue with your project with or without Young Minds (?)
Interviewing The Minister for the Health and children from Ireland Mr Micheal Martin
Mr Micheal Martin was strongly surprised about the problems showed in our poster mainly smoking and rubbish. Half of teenagers students are smokers and they used to smoke even "in the school" during the break time. People don't take care on ther environment around the school: bad smell and rubbish. The Minister suggest us to continue our work and to contact with local authorities to ask them for help.
Interviewing our neighbors from Andorra
They have been very interested about our explanations. They were worried because we have a lot of problems very close to their problems on the past.
Yes we did, and we think that prevention may change these behavior. 2. Do you have any suggestion to resolve these problems?
It will be necessary to make campaign to raise public awareness, helped by public administration. It’s important the representation of all social sectors.
3. Who must start these actions? First of all you must present these problems to your regional representatives, the press. You will need help from your council.
4. Where do you think we will address our problems? Even if you send letters to your regional representatives, the best way would be to meet them directly and tell your problems and your already started actions to solve it.
5. Do you think our participation in Young Minds project it will be useful? Your participation wouldn’t be useful if you stop here. It’ll be very important to follow with your actions and to implicate the administration representatives.
This interview has been very encouraging to the Spanish students!
Asking for opinion to Ms. Laila Dalha, from Norway.
Ms Laila Dalha is a Intergovernmental Relation Ship, and our interview was short, but she told us that she knows the problem with the tobacco in Spain, but she couldn’t imagine our rubbish problem.
French opinion about Spanish problems
Interviewing Ms Helene Schutzenberger (Direction departamentale des affaires sanitaries et socials des Yvelines –DDASS- France).
We have discussed our problems about rubbish accumulation around the village and in the school. Mrs Helene was surprised … she said “It’s incredible!”
These problems should have been resolved 10 years ago! If this was happening in my country I would tried to solve it many years ago.
Interviewing Nele Boehme (Germany) Public Relation Officer:
Did you know about these problems from Spain? Yes
What’s your opinion about these problems? They have to be tacked
Do you have any suggestion to resolve these problems? Better environmental education, + better link between environmental policy and other policy sectors for example such as administrations…
Who must start these actions? Where do you think we will address our problems? The politics, government, NGO’s… As well as changing your own behavior
QUESTIONS TO MIRKLOS PERSANYI, (Hungarian Minister for Environment): Mirklos Persanyi is the Hungarian Minister for Environment, and when we told him about our Spanish problems he wasn’t very surprised because he told us “Here, in Hungary, we have the same problems”, and he suggest “I think you must make locals campaign; and "people must collaboration cleaning an area, and then maintain it clean”
Interviewing Mr. David Rivett (WHO Secretariat, Health promoting schools coordinator)
Did you know about these problems from Spain? No!
What’s your opinion about these problems? Very real, and I’m angry.
Do you have any suggestion to resolve these problems? -Write a history about your problems. -Publicity -Tell the community, and explain them the situation and implication of students.
Who must start these actions? First the community father’s and teachers, then minister of health
Where do you think we will address our problems? NGO’s Spain help us create a lobby, magazine.
Interviewing Dr. Maria Michela Morese, Adviser from the Italian Ministry for the Environment and Territory
She didn't know these problems from Spain, but she agreed that similar problems may be found in the south of Italy. In Italy they have already undertook a national program (with international collaboration) to improve the environment in these problematic regions (South).
Interviewing Ms Gregoria von Amann, responsible for health school in Portugal (Health Ministry)
Showing the Spanish work to Mr Albertus Jansen (EEA)
Mr Jansen has been interested about our main problems: rubbish and recycling, smoking. It’s very difficult to obtain results from our actions in a short time as Young Minds project: We have done an ‘No Smoking Campaign’, we sent a letter to the person responsible for Environmental issues in our town, and we made some containers to separate used batteries, paper and plastic.
We need more time in our schools to follow with our Young Minds actions.
He agreed about it but Mr. Jansen didn’t know the best way the best way to follow these actions.
It will be urgent to start other actions to continue our project … the Young Minds frame has been a very good starting point and we hope it wouldn’t be the end point too! Asking for help to Dr Eva Csobod (from REC for Central and Eastern Europe)
We have showed our poster and web site trying to know a way to continue with our project in Spain. We explained her our previous interview with Spanish representatives and the difficulties to found practical solutions or economical support. Dr Eva Csobod encouraged us to join “ecoschool” project. She will send us information about it and the possibility to participate as school observers. News from the Argentina’s Environment Secretary: Mr Atilo Savino
1. Did you know about these problems from Spain? Yes, in Argentina we have a lot of similar problems as tobacco at school, rubbish in and around the schools.
2. What’s your opinion about these problems? Bad smell problem may be stopped talking with the responsible of the company. They can start a program in order to reduce the smell sources, but for them you will need public involucrate.
The rubbish problem is more difficult, I think the best solution may be hard punishment.
3. Where do you think we will address our problems? You must go to the council village and tell there your problems, and perhaps you will have answer… or not.
Interviewing to Dr Marc-Oliver Pahl (Germany)
1. What is your official title? Adviser for European & International, Ministry of Environment of North-Rhine Westphalia Region, Disscldove (Germany)
2. Did you know these problems from Spain? Yes, but I did hope that environmental awareness of environmental problems.
3. What’s your opinion about these problems? And about theses pictures? Very good presentation to increase the awareness of environmental problems.
4. Do you Have any suggestion to resolve these problems? Students must be given their own means, including financial means, to solve the problems around them.
Interviewing Fruzsina Varga (Hungary):
1. What’s your official title in the Hungarian government? I’m a lawyer, I work for the Hungarian Ministry of Health Social & Family affaim
2. Did you know about this problems from Spain? No.
3. What’s your opinion about these problems? I think it’simportant to call attencion to these problems and your work is fantastic.
4. Do you have any suggestion to resolve these problems? I think you need to talk to the local decision makers even if they reject you at the beginning, but don’t give up.
Governments should deal with the problems, but a local initiation should be awareness raising, so keep doing the good work!
I think you should keep asking for help from the local authorities, because they are close to the problems and way understand them better. |
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