“It is environmental organizations and ecologists who quite often base their activities on environmental volunteering. Environmental volunteering is based on direct and indirect activities to set guidelines and improve environmental conservation," stated the Director of the CAREC Country Office for Kazakhstan, Nurai Satimov, at the International Volunteers Forum.
“It is environmental organizations and ecologists who quite often base their activities on environmental volunteering. Environmental volunteering is based on direct and indirect activities to set guidelines and improve environmental conservation," stated the Director of the CAREC Country Office for Kazakhstan, Nurai Satimov, at the International Volunteers Forum.
According to Nurai Satimov, CAREC has been cooperating with volunteers and civil society since its establishment, and this is one of the strategic goals of the organization's development.
He said environmental volunteering could include lectures on environmental education, "plogging" - collecting garbage while jogging in the park, collecting waste. Usually, young people actively participate in ecological volunteer movements.
“Since the youth is one of the key target groups of stakeholders of the Central Asian Regional Ecological Network, CAREC has been holding annually the Central Asian Leadership Program for 12 years. The Central Asian Leadership Program (CALP) is an annual inter-programme event of CAREC with the involvement of many international and national partners and experts. The program enables 5-6 participants from each CA country to undergo an intensive 1–2-week training at CAREC,” Nurai Satimov told the participants of the International Forum.
The CALP’s outcomes are the current CALP Alumni Network (more than 350 young people from 5 countries) led by the Organizing Committee of the Network, success stories and achievements of CALP graduates in their career growth.
“In 2021, CAREC, in cooperation and with the support of national and international partners, took the lead in preparing a regional statement. And last year, for the first time in the history of the region, a regional statement on behalf of youth was issued,” said Nurai Satimov. - The Central Asian Youth Regional Statement for COP27 was prepared on behalf of the CALP Alumni Network together with the Working Group of the First Regional Conference of Youth on Climate Change in Central Asia, the CAY4W youth network and other youth groups of the CA countries.”
“The basics of environmental volunteering are very clear and precise. The main goal is to establish the need for the protection of natural resources and the environment for the whole society. In my opinion, the most important thing in volunteer movements is the formation of environmental awareness,” said Nurai Satimov, the Director of the CAREC branch in Kazakhstan.
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