The group of con­scious and ac­tive cham­pi­ons/per­sons for the earth, known as Earth Cham­pi­on, has a mot­to that in­cites Trinidad and To­ba­go youths to clean up the en­vi­ron­ment.

The Mot­to: We All Have A Right, A Clean En­vi­ron­ment. We Al­so Have A Re­spon­si­bil­i­ty To Keep It Clean.

Earth Cham­pi­ons is a project of the Cre­ate Fu­ture Good Group, which is an or­gan­i­sa­tion that pro­motes chil­dren's rights through artis­tic and cre­ative pro­grammes. Earth Cham­pi­ons fo­cus­es on de­vel­op­ing ini­tia­tives to re­store our plan­et to prop­er health, through small man­age­able projects such as re­cy­cling in schools, homes and of­fices. By chang­ing small habits, par­tic­i­pants can change the world. Earth Cham­pi­on's tar­get mar­ket is chil­dren 18 and un­der be­cause they be­lieve these tar­gets can af­fect change in a great way, oth­er than gov­ern­ments and adults.

This non-prof­it or­gan­i­sa­tion in­tends to be­come self sus­tain­ing by hav­ing some of the more pas­sion­ate en­vi­ron­men­tal­ists in the stu­dent body run it. "I came up with the name Earth Cham­pi­on, af­ter hold­ing fo­cus groups with chil­dren in sec­ondary schools, be­cause they seemed pas­sion­ate about do­ing some­thing for their en­vi­ron­ment," said Nadel­la Ri­ley, chil­dren's rights ac­tivist and founder of CRE­ATE­FU­TURE­GOOD. "We want them to find cre­ative ways and so­lu­tions for solv­ing their own refuse prob­lems at school, to gen­er­ate funds to keep it go­ing, and even of­fer our ser­vices to the pri­vate and pub­lic sec­tor. "There is a com­pet­i­tive as­pect to their in­volve­ment in any­thing sec­ondary schools are in­volved in. So the plan is to make them 'he­roes', by cel­e­brat­ing the good work they do, hence the cham­pi­on as­pect to the group," Ri­ley added.

To boost aware­ness of the or­gan­i­sa­tion and its plight, Earth Cham­pi­on will be hav­ing its first demon­stra­tion with the hope that it will kick start re­cy­cling in a dy­nam­ic way in schools. The demon­stra­tion which is themed 'Bring your rub­bish and come', will be held on Wednes­day 13th April, 2011, at the Queens Park Sa­van­nah. This is the of­fi­cial launch of the Earth Cham­pi­ons move­ment in schools across the Caribbean! At 12 noon every­one will be re­quired to form a ring around the Memo­r­i­al Park, show­ing just how much re­cy­clable waste their school gen­er­at­ed in one week. Par­tic­i­pants are asked to wear old white t-shirts, with an Eco friend­ly or Eco-con­scious mes­sage on it, a re­cy­cled plac­ard, and the items col­lect­ed for re­cy­cling.

With an ac­tive Face­book page and a mem­ber­ship that is swift­ly in­creas­ing, Earth Cham­pi­ons be­lieves that from clean­ing up refuse and re­cy­cling, there can be fi­nan­cial gain, as well as sav­ing the earth amongst oth­er things.

Any­one wish­ing to get in­volved can email or join the face­book group at:

www.face­book.com/#!/group.php?gid=119188968137959 !

Teach­ers, par­ents, stu­dent groups; any group can take part. Par­tic­i­pat­ing Schools are:

• Bish­op Anstey High School

• St. Josephs Con­vent Port of Spain

• QRC

• Prov­i­dence

• Tran­quil­li­ty Gov­ern­ment Sec­ondary School

• St Mary's Col­lege

• Holy Name Con­vent

• St Fran­cois Girls'

• Bel­mont In­ter­me­di­ate

• The British Acad­e­my

We will send a free tem­plate of how your school can get start­ed re­cy­cling!