POP Projects

Safe School Project seeks to assist rural children who cannot afford online education and face accessibility issues during the COVID-19 pandemic. The initiative brings education close to them by educating them in their communities using a medium (place of gathering) close to them. It employs the standard educational curricula through the help of volunteers. This project commenced on August 10, 2020 and is currently ongoing in the city of Calabar, Nigeria with over 300 children as beneficiaries. As part of the efforts to revamp the spirit of sustainability in the minds of children, the project also adopts Teach SDGs strategy that will help the children adapt and familiarize themselves with the SDGs. Since the inception of this project, the children’s performance has significantly improved as most of them who cannot read and write, can now do so. Adopting the same approach, this project has also been replicated in two other states in Nigeria: Ogun State and Ondo.

Through this initiative, the team seeks to share experiences from their school’s Environmental Club, detailing the obstacles they encounter and the approaches they take to overcome them while undertaking any project. Furthermore, they intend to give leadership advice and discuss the fundamental steps to starting a project. This varies from how to get others involved to how to manage speaking and working in a professional setting. The goal is to inspire other students to become influential leaders and advocates and take climate action in their own communities.

This initiative seeks to emphasize the importance of the relationship that exists between intelligent communities and stray animals, specifically dogs and cats, that have increased in number during the COVID-19 pandemic. It attempts to reduce the number of stray dogs and cats, through promoting adoption and preventing abandonment and animal abuse.

This study researched and measured the perception, impact and limitations of freshmen and senior undergraduate students, from a private university in Mexico, in order to evaluate the effectiveness of environmental education courses currently being offered at the university. The research emphasizes two main outtakes; for one, there are no significant differences between the ecological footprints of senior and freshmen students, suggesting that the current course of environmental education fails in creating lasting differences in the lifestyles of students. Furthermore, the average ecological footprint of private university students was 6.1 gha (global hectares), tripling that of Mexico’s national average. Regarding what limits the students to change their behavior, it found that a “lack of information on how to change”, their “ideologies”, and a universal sense of “distrust” were amongst the most common. However, the greatest barrier was “comparison with others”. This study opens an opportunity to improve the academic syllabus and to influence students with positive reinforcement when showing pro-environmental behavior, as well as with young environmental leaders.

Kuching is a metropolitan city with a growing economy and population and increasing land waste. The situation calls for action to be taken in a very localized manner before the whole process of curbing becomes complicated. The goal of the project is to have a long-term effect by garnering support from the younger generation. The objective of the project is to provide free psychological and emotional support to less fortunate students and to educate them on how they can implement the practice of recycle in their daily life. The goal is to create a younger generation that is instilled with concern for the environment. Additionally, it is to mould future leaders with great mind, education and environmental sensitivity.

Ecowarrior Kenya is a blog based on the real-life experiences of a Kenyan girl on a journey to fully transitioning to a green lifestyle, in the hopes of inspiring young people (the majority of her readers) to also follow this path. Taking advantage of the advancements of technology, she highlights the importance of taking a stance towards climate action with a specific focus on sustainable energy through social media. The initiative is currently working on a segment for children Mashujaa Wadogo (Swahili for Little Heroes). This is a curriculum that breaks down complex topics to elementary school children such as sustainable energy, extinction and pollution. The aim is to teach them early enough because the things we learn when young stay with us forever. These little heroes will hopefully choose better for our planet. Simultaneously, Eco-Warrior Kenya is on the drafting stage of a children’s book series on the same.

Manav Rachna Educational Institutions (MREI) collaborated with the POP Movement to bring the youth-led climate action movement to India with an aim to achieve Net Zero Emissions through climate action by 2070.

Climate activists from all over the world along with students (age group 13-18 years) from schools across the globe attended the POP INDIA TALKS at Manav Rachna Campus participating in multiple sessions like “Inspiring Success Stories”, “Change Makers”, “Business Challenge”, “ Minimalistic Living through Art”, “Save Soil”, “Home Composting”, “Urban Farming” and more. Read more

The Youth Symposium (TYS) which is a platform founded by high-school students in Delhi, India, partnered with the POP Movement to virtually host “The Youth Symposium CAN (Climate Action Now)” on April 22, 2020, marking 50 years of Earth Day. Envisioning to discuss matters of environmental relevance with young people from across the world, the debut symposium, organized by TYS, sought to examine the role of education in improving the environment and enabling climate action for the future. Read more

The presentation showcased the highlights from the research conducted on the topic of biomedical and hazardous waste and its relevance in the times of Covid-19. The primary objective of the research is to create easy access to information on biomedical waste, making it specifically easier for youth advocates to access and paving way to innovate solutions for proper disposal of waste.