Classic Travel promotes environmental conservation

Classic Travel will fund a full-fledged ‘green project’ at the Sri Sudarshanarama Junior School, Batapotha, to promote environmental conservation practices.

The project launched with the support of the Central Environmental Authority, covers a wide array of activities to protect the environment within the school and guide students to become ‘Environmental pioneers’.

The project activities will begin with forming of ‘Environmental Pioneer’ groups among schoolchildren, conducting awareness campaigns and launching a tree planting program including indigenous species.

This will be followed by the setting up of botanical and herbal gardens and landscaping. CEO, Classic Travel, Suresh Mendis said, “It is important to instill a sense of responsibility about protecting the environment in children from a young age.

We live in an era of excessive and careless consumption which results in harming the very environment that we depend on.” “All global citizens have an obligation to care for the environment, in particular business entities such as us.

We are pleased to be a part of this endeavour to help children discover the value of protecting the environment,” he said.

Set up in October, 1952, Sri Sudarshanaramaya Junior School has 300 students.

The school conducts classes from Grade one up to the GCE Ordinary Level.