Learning Station @ Youth Corps Sg “SDG Go” (Sep)

Ms Shi Min, Events Management Member of Youth Corp Singapore (Beyond Singapore Cluster), invited Earth Society to participate in their “SDG Go” event in East Coast Park in 30 Sep.

YCS Beyond Singapore Cluster works to shape Singapore’s youths to be global citizens as they promote global affairs to youths and advocate for United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) within the ASEAN region.

The “SDG Go” event seeks to educate the youths about United Nation’s SDG. The youths participating in this event will go through 5 stations (Amazing-Race style) to learn about 5 UN SDGs thorough games, presentation, quizzes etc. The youths have 15 mins to learn from each station.     

Earth Society corresponded with the YCS team through online Zoom meetings. YCS invited us to set up a learning station to share with the youths on UN SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production) and food sustainability.

On 30 Sep, Earth Society team reached East Coast Park at 7.30 am. We set up a Learning station in a sheltered pavilion.

At our station, we used a laptop to present to the youths on the amount of Green house gas emitted / the amount of water required to produce different types of food. We showed that producing meat was not sustainable and recommended to reduce meat consumption by half and support Meatless days to conserve the food and water resources on the planet. After the presentation, the youths have to do a Quiz (7 MCQs) to earn points for their team

We manned the learning station from 7.30 am to 12 pm. About 30 youths participated in the “SDG Go’ event.

We are glad that organizations such as Youth Corps Singapore are educating youths on Sustainability issues. We hope Environmental awareness will spread far and wide among the youths in Singapore.