Secondary schools can win a grant of up $50,000 as Countdown has announced its annual call out for innovative climate change-focused projects, with the launch of its fourth year of Growing for Good grants.
Growing for Good grants are open to all early childhood centres, primary, intermediate and secondary schools across Aotearoa to apply for until 27th May 2022 with up to $10,000 available for each successful school or ECE centre.
The grants aim to nurture Aotearoa’s next generation of environmentalists and conservationists and help turn classroom learning into real-life action for students.
Announcing the grant call, Countdown’s Director of Sustainability, Kiri Hannifin, said that the organisation is proud to be running another year of Growing for Good grants and to be focussing on tackling one of the biggest issues facing Aotearoa.
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“We know that responding to the climate emergency is the most important issue of our time,” he said. “Our purpose is to do what we can to make Kiwis lives better. As part of this, we have an ambitious target of reducing our carbon emissions by 63% by 2030 along with several other commitments designed to lessen our footprint on the planet and create a better future for us all. We hope that with this year’s Growing for Good grants we can help our younger generations act too.”
Speaking further, he said, “We love that our youngest Kiwis are some of our strongest advocates for climate change action and we’re really proud to support that kaupapa with $50,000 of grants to bring to life projects that will help tackle climate change in early childhood centres, schools and their local communities”
Story was adapted from Scoop Independent News.
