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Three boys from Bangalore to attend UN meet

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE, JULY 13. Three young environmentalists from Bangalore will be part of a five-member team which will participate in a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) conference in the U.S. next week.

Safdhar Adoor, Vishesh Vinod and Karan Singhvi, all from St. Josephs European High School here, and their friends Harshit Agarwal, now in Delhi, and Hari Sridhar based in Chennai, will attend an international children's conference called International Coalition for Children and the Environment (ICCE) to be held from July 19 to 23.

The five are members of Little Eco Friends Foundation Trust, at V.V. Puram, and in 2002 they won the Volvo Young Environmentalists' Award for their project on the effects of `polybags.' At the time, Ankush Bagrecha, another member of the trust, had also participated in the project and gone to Sweden to receive the prize. Ankush is, however, not attending the ICCE 2004 conference.

According to a note from the trust, the selected five submitted a thesis on the importance of water conservation, rainwater harvesting and tree plantation for the UNEP event.

ICCE 2004 will bring children from different parts of the world together to discuss the issues affecting the environment and their responsibilities. The event will feature topics such as oceans, waterways, living on the edge of extinction, indigenous ways of healing and energy. Details about Little Eco Friends Foundation Trust is available on from www.littlecofriends.org.

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