Veni, vidi, vici! Our victory in Rome

ENO is a winner of The Global Junior Challenge Awards 2007

ENO-Environment Online was one of the winners in the Global Junior Challenge Awards. Out of 600 projects from 80 countries, an international jury selected 100 as a finalists. These projects were presented in the Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale Galileo Galilei. The winners were announced during the award ceremony that took place in the beautiful Giulio Cesar Room in the Campidoglio City Hall. They were also invited to meet the President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano in the Quirinale Palace.

The Global Junior Challenge is a global award promoted by the Digital World Foundation, a non-profit organization founded by the Municipality of Rome and six major ICT companies. The intention of the award, dedicated to young people and to schools, is to identify and reward best practices on the use of new technologies in education and training of youngsters.

Drops Of Life on ENO Tree Planting Day in Turkey

We are glad to inform you that our students performed “The Drops of Life” on ENO Tree Planting Day, September 21, 2007. It was greatly appreciated by everybody present for the event. The message given by the play was very significant.

As we don’t have a hall in our school, the play was performed in the school garden. It was also worked in a very short time (3 days) so that we couldn’t prepare any costumes. The students wore caps having the pictures of the animals on them. However, despite these circumstances they put up a good performance.

The names of those who took part are the following:

Owl: Serhat ERDEM

Gorilla: Behlul SUAYYIPLAR

Panda: Delal SALMAN

Puma: Idiz SONMEZ

Koala: Seval YILDIZ

Child: Yaren TELEK

Costumes and Scenery: Nisa GÜNDOÐDU, Filiz SAYAL, Hatice DEMIREL

Kind regards

H. Buket YERELI, Eno Teacher

EROL TARAKCIOGLU PRIMARY SCHOOL

IZMIR – TURKIYE

Another blog about The Drops Of Life in Taiwan

Enjoy the blog about our tree planting play The Drops Of Life. Taipei Municipal Lishan High School's blog records many learning activities regarding our play.
See this blog here: http://952lspbl.wordpress.com/

Photo Album

Here is a link to all of the photos and images concerning The Drops Of Life,
see here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/enoprogramme/TheDropsOfLife

The Drops Of Life in Malta

Dear Mr Tiitinen and Mr Vanhanen,

First of all we would like to congratulate you on the verses and music of the Play "The Drops of Life".

We are happy to inform you that we put up the play last June 12th on the occasion of our school's annual Prize-Giving Evening. The students were prepared by our Drama and Musci teachers and the play was a success. It was greatly appreciated by the parents present for the event. And we are sure that the central message got through. Our school does not have a hall, and so we used the school grounds as a natural setting: this helped to create the right atmosphere.

To commemorate World Environment Day, we planted a sapling of the Maltese National Tree (called "Gharghar") in the school yard. Besides, our pupils (who number just 120) organized fund-raising activities to collect funds to be used to 'adopt' more trees. So far they have managed to collect enough money to adopt 7 trees. These, together with other trees sponsored by other schools, will be planted during a National Tree-Planting event to be held some time next October.

We are attaching a few photos of the tree-planting and the play. The names of those who took part are the following (in case you need them for eventual inclusion in photo captions):

Owl: Brandon Saliba

Gorilla; Justin Dalli

Panda: Raquel Galdes

Puma; Kylie Cassar

Koala: Martina Scicluna

Child: Ian Camilleri

Backstage: Scott Caruana

Choir: Letizia Bartolo, Shirley Cutajar, Jessica Grima,

Benjamin Abela, Francois Borg, Bradley Cassar,

Ramon Cassar, Shalon Diacono, Jurgen Dingli,

Justin Farrugia, Leon James., Christian Magro,

Christian Sapiano.

Best regards,

George Sammut

Head of School

"Play it again, Sam!" Perform our play 21st of Sep!

You are welcome to play The Drops Of Life with us again!
This time we will do in during ENO Tree Planting Day, 21st of September 2007. You can also join our tree planting day and plant trees with us!

Premiere in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Hi Mika,

It was a wonderful day for every participants who came to Lumbini Theatre in Colombo.
I congratulate for you and author Esko-Pekka. It is very familiar for our culture.
Songs were very close to our hearts.

On 5th over 800 teachers, adults and visitors gathered with children.Over 15 leading schools in Colombo principals,teachers and students came to see the drama. chief guest was Mrs. Anusha Gokula. Asst; secretary of Cultural Ministry.. Finnish consul didn't come or didn't reply for our invitation. But it was a great window to introduce about Finland. Our children have a few knowledge about Finland. On 5th they understood more about your motherland. Special lecturer were delivwred by Dr. Galabada Arachchi,a famous scientist in Sri lanka.Mr. Amarajeewa the principal of Lumbini College, Mr. Chandrasiri, Environment commissioner for Colombo District were among the invitees.Mr. Cooray now most famous comedy king,visited here delighted the function.

Following famous voluntary served to success Drops of Life.
Make up artist; Gamini Costa- chief makeup artist, Swarnavahini Television,
Sunil Sri and P, Gamage helped more .First we staged Sinhala drama and next staged English one. Media has given a good publicity. "Vidula" is a special State Radio channel for children. Today morning attended a live broadcast about Drops of life.

Premier in Kaunas, Lithuania

“The Drops of Life” was performed in Lithuania Kaunas Vydunas Secondary School by pupils from class 5. We all were very happy to feel a part of this big event. It is such a good feeling to try to make our world a better and nicer place to live for everyone.

Here are the links where you can see some pieces from the play.
http://www.rasma.lt/video/index.php?id=1
http://www.rasma.lt/video/index.php?id=2

Thank you for this wonderful opportunity!

Best regards.

Rasma Stuokiene

Premiere in Galati, Romania

"The Drops of Life" at School 2 Galati, Romania


The World Environment Day on 5 June was celebrated by the pupils of our school who participated to lots of activities organised to take place in and also out of the school.

The performance of "The Drops of Life" was one of the special events particularly because the play is the means that unites children and adults from all over the world. It was a unique way to encourage the audience and the community to struggle for tolerence, peace and above all, the protection of the environment.

The pupils-actors from class 7A, their English teacher, Ms Georgiana Munteanu and their physics teacher, Mr Florin Puiu Stan who guided them step by step during the rehearsals, were very excited and happy to see the reaction of the audience to the challenging message of the play. It was the proof that each little thought, word or action counts when it comes from the heart.


With love for everybody caring about our beautiful Earth,

Georgiana Munteanu

School Coordinator for European Projects

Premiere in Bilbao, Spain

Dear Mika and friends of "Drops of Life":

The premiere was a succes: the children were fantastic, the parents proud of them, the Consul of Finland in Bilbao very kind with our pupils, and we, the teachers, very happy being part of all this.

Warm regards.

Jone

Tree planting in Swaziland

NGOMANE HIGH SCHOOL from Swaziland didn't have time to perform our play but they still planted 93 trees on the World Environment Day 2007. See their report here:

Premiere in Curitiba, Brazil

Premiere in Slovakia

Premiere in Lagos, Nigeria

Kinderville International School from Lagos joined the premiere. Here are two photos. A short video clips can be found here.

Premiere in New Zealand

Riverlands school from Blenheim, Marlborough joined our premiere. Their teacher Gaylene sent photos and some comments: "I was interviewed by National Radio for World Environment Day yesterday. I spoke about the ENO programme and what we are doing, particularly the play last week and treeplanting. The local radio was so impressed that they are interviewing our Principal today, live on air, to see what we are doing for environmental education here at Riverlands School in Blenheim. Apparently the newspaper has just phoned and wants to interview us as well. So the publicity is a bit late but it is happening.

Thank you for the wonderful programme.

Enjoy your holidays and see you next term."

Haere ra,
Gaylene Burborough
Riverlands School
NZ02

Premiere in Pascani, Romania

Mihail Sadoveanu Highschool from Pascani,Romania trained their7th grade pupils for the play Drops of Life. A premeiere was held on 5th of June, the world environment day.

A rainy premiere in Trinidad Tobago

Rain did not interrupt our premiere in Trinidad Tobago. Indeed, the planted trees got some water from the sky!

Thanks for the coordinator Gia Gaspard-Taylor and Abe Fergusson!

Here are links to see more photos:

http://www.bubbleshare.com/album/178108.547f5e08ac4

http://www.bubbleshare.com/album/178075.387b5909285

Premiere by CNMB, Romania

Premiere in Ukraine

Two photos from our premiere.

Lubov Shamova
Kharkiv, Ukraine
School 75

Premiere in Bulgaria

At last the premiere day came. We all were a bit scared but excited and happy. We played on the stage of the Youth Theatre Pioneer in the centre of the town. Many teachers and students came, all students from the ECO club 'Clovers', friends even the parents. The performance was announced in the national Darik Radio broadcast, because we were the only school from Bulgaria which took part in the world premiere. The audience wanted to give moral support to performers because it was their first performance on the stage and the play was in English. There was a cameraman from the local cable TV who made a film. Everything was great and there were flowers and presents to performers at the end of the play. It was an unforgettable experience and even the lady, who is the director of the youth theatre asked a permission to use the play in Bulgarian with her actors to perform the play in front of the kids from the kindergartens and primary schools in autumn. The world premiere became a great lesson how we all together can make the difference and to help our Earth to survive!

Tzvetan Naydenov, teacher