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“Winning the award has been a life-opener" - new post on ESD Prize Blog by winner from Zimbabwe
A new post has been published on the by Sibanga Ncube, Head Teacher and Project Manager of (Zimbabwe), which won the UNESCO-Japan Prize on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) 2017.
"Our community has never been so excited, it is on cloud nine. Winning this award is now a driving force in fulfilling our SDGs and extending good practices through ESD and partnerships which will benefit everyone.
Looking back it’s amazing how time flies. The UNESCO-Japan Prize on ESD, was held in Paris, France at the beginning of November 2017 and what a memorable occasion and a life opener it was! The brief stay in the city itself was awesome, businesslike and hard to forget. The warm, welcoming and hardworking officers responsible for this function kept us on focus. We also had precious time to meet with other laureates and share great moments and our good practices, which we will always remember.
For the first time, I saw and took photographs of the attractive historical structure, the Eiffel Tower. We had such an experience from this pleasant stay in Paris. We had the chance to set our eyes on UNESCO Headquarters, where each and every member state has its national flag ever flying. The visit was climaxed by the awarding ceremony and what an experience – especially for me who broke the ice on stage!
The winning of the prize money was given as the impetus to work even harder. It should be born in mind that our permaculture project seeks to mitigate land degradation and deforestation which the prize money enables us to continue doing. Our goal now is to expand the existing projects we have and introduce new ones such as fisheries and roadrunner chickens. As always this is all only possible as we work together with the very valuable participation of parents.
Now numerous visits from schools around the province and other neighbouring ones are the order of the day as they all want to see what Sihlengeni Primary is like."
