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Heal theEarthTEAM:SCHOOL:COUNTRY:COACH:TEAM MEMBERS:(ages 14-15)Earth DefendersSecondary school # 8 1-3 grades, IzmailUkraineLarysa OlefirenkoAnastasia Tsion, Daria Supriaga, Ganchev Ivan, Genchev Nick, Kot Anastasia,Iordec Alexander, Fedotov Nikita, Mitin Eugene, Liits Andrew, Mahova Anastasia,Dorofeeva InnaROLES, TYPE OF DECISION-MAKING AND LEADERSHIPAlexander Glushenko began the project but as he left Izmail I had to become a coach ofthe project. It is a strong team of the students united by the common desire to changetheir life for better. They are active in problem discussion, responsible in decision makingand eager to work as a team. The type of decision making is democratic. All of themlike Nature and want to improve the surrounding world by doing concrete deeds-helpingbirds in winter and spring, planting trees and flowers, creating projects of parks.PROJECT DESCRIPTIONTOPICHeal the Earth is the slogan and the main aim of the project. Only active citizens can bringchanges so we wanted to get skills of leadership to promote our ideas, to explain them, toinvolve students in practical actions of nature protection, be our supporters sharing ourconcern for the future, keeping the Danube alive. We got active and motivated others.MAIN ACTIVITIESUAAccording to our plans we celebrated all ecological fests involving the students of the3-11 grades:, World Wetland Day, Earth Hour, Day of environment, Day of meeting birds,World water day. During the cold winter we helped birds survive on the nearby lake andin the district park. In our workshops we made feeders and bird houses. It was the workfor the boys. The same was while planting trees and flowers and ivy along the schoolfence. We got permission to paint the fence by our elaborated pictures of different flowerswidely spread in Ukraine and showing world harmony. The symbol of our project is theEarth surrounded by the children’s hands and the citizens of our district liked it. Theexhibitions of the primroses attracted attention of everybody. During the ecological weekwe attended 4-8 grades making presentations on ecological problems of our town andcountry. But the most fairy performance was our participation in the Art gallery presentationsin autumn, winter and spring where the girls from our school studio showed themulti-coloured seasons. All these events were reflected in our local newspapers and TV.We got some awards for the results: Lists of Honour, trip to the international camp in theCrimea “Artek” for the research work in Biology. We tried to learn more about the natureso we found new information about plants and animals of the Danube region and spreadit to others with the help of our school site. We visited 2 nearby settlements-Bolgradfamous for its grapes and Kamenka well-known as an agricultural centre .We rode thehorses for the first time in our life. It is unforgetable. We wrote the anthem of our teamwhich is sung by the pupils.62 Schools Taking Action For Europe’s Environment