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The souvenir photo of the YEP members with the participants at the Antelias event.

The Youth Environment Parliament, in its first official activity, presented an awareness program for more than 200 students from different schools of Lebanon at the Annual Lebanese Book Festival of Antelias. Students were trained on a meeting at EDM offices to perform in a convenient way in front of the audience.

The YEP members took in charge every single detail of the event starting from the preparation of the presentations to the hosting of different games, the decoration set up to the LCD display and sound monitoring.

In the first part, the members described the YEP program and its goals to the audience. After this, one of the YEP members introduced the main environmental problems in Lebanon stressing on the solid waste management issue. A third member explained the way how to voice these issues to the environmental decision makers.

After the presentations, an open discussion took place with the audience about their own regional environmental problems. Each concerned person spoke about an environmental problem he suffered of. Some of the YEP members took in charge the responsibility to follow-up some of these issues in a later stage.

In the second part, a special environmental competition was conducted between 3 groups and hosted by the YEP members. A variety of games and environmental questions were implied in this part. All students were showing a high level of interest in the games and questions.

Prizes were distributed to the winners by Miss Raghida Haddad executive editor of the Al-Bia Wal-Tanmia (Environment and Development) magazine. Some of the environmental roll-up panels were also exposed to be viewed by the audience that was visiting the fair.

A souvenir photo was taken for all the members in the memory of the first YEP meeting.


Riad Chaaban speaking

Sara Chamieh speaking

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