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[February is "Africa Month" on 13.7 Billion Years, focusing on biodiversity, conservation, sustainable development and ethical consumption.]Uganda's Ministry of Water and Environment "says climate change has led to adverse effects in Uganda which include; declining water resources, reduced agricultural productivity, spread of vector-borne diseases to new areas, drop in fish population and increased flooding and heavier rainfall," according to Degsew Amanu of AfricaNews.com.
Amanu adds that "a recent International Climate Risk Report also labels Uganda as one of the most unprepared and most vulnerable countries in the world as a country that agriculture takes 80 percent of the total GDP."
In order to increase public awareness of this critical issue, the ministry is taking this urgent message to the schools, where climate change education will be included in the curriculum "in an effort to ensure that students are mindful about their environment when they are faced with situations which may push them to compromise its conservation," according to Stephen Otage of the Daily Monitor .
"We are going to...generate as much information as possible on climate change so that when a child grows from nursery the university, they know what is good for the environment and what is not," said Grace Baguma, the director of Uganda's National Curriculum Development Center.
According to a Swahili proverb, "There are three things which if one does not know, one cannot live long in the world: what is too much for one, what is too little for one, and what is just right for one."
As the NCDC conducts their curriculum review, hopefully they will find what is "just right" when it comes to educating children about climate change.
