2016 International Caretakers of the Environment Conference, took place on June 27 -July 2 2016 in the city of Aalborg in Denmark. More than 100 hundred school delegations from 16 different countries attended the conference. Begüm A.’18 and Ezgi T.’18 represented Hisar’s Young Representative of the Environment group along with their advising teacher.
Our students chose the topic of consumption and shared their presentation titled “Don’t Use Plastic, Don’t Make This World Tragic” within this year’s conference theme of Sustainable Societies. 29 of our students have designed canvas bags decorated with their interpretation of Hisar’s Joy figure and produced them with the budget they raised through bake sales. They publicised their project on change.org‘dan and their blogs. Begüm A. and Ezgi T. presented to schools from Turkey, Potugal, Hong Kong, Hungary, Taiwan, U.S.A., Denmark, Japan, Poland and South Africa. They distributed canvas bags to the audience which became an instant favorite.