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"PACE footage is an extra on the Suncookers DVD produced by Solar Cookers International. Cooking with solar energy has enormous potential for improving health and safety, saving money and conserving natural resources - especially in sun-rich fuel-poor regions of the world.
SUNCOOKERS DVD follows Solar Cookers International's Margaret Owino on a journey across Western Kenya, visiting solar cooking projects in Kakuma refugee camp and the community of Nyakach. For more details, contact Solar Cookers International, info@solarcookers.org, www.solarcookers.org" PACE in the UK
26 November 2007
Thanks once again to funding from the Vodafone Group Foundation, the PACE project is now working with teachers in the UK to create a new global dimension teaching resource. The resource will feature the people and projects in the PACE films as case studies to initiate pupil-led investigations of environmental issues. For example, a farm biogas plant in Tanzania sparks off a comparison of energy use and greenhouse gas emissions by British and Tanzanian households; Learning about local solutions to elephants raiding crops in Kenya and Zambia leads to a discussion about the potential reintroduction of large mammals, such as wolves, to Scotland and the values which underpin the search for peaceful solutions to human-wildlife conflict. Each section concludes by asking whether we can use the practical projects seen in the films as inspiration for positive environmental action in the UK. If you are a teacher of KS2 or 3 in the UK and are interested in getting involved, please contact us on pace@siren.org.uk or telephone 01865 794343.
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 PACE in Nigeria
07 February 2008
The Environmental Resources Conservation Initiative (ERCI) in Jos Nigeria is putting the PACE resources to good use. They would like to dub the PACE films into Hausa to increase the scope for the films in the country |
PACE Evaluation
26 November 2007
In July, WESSA Eco-schools Coordinator Caroline Conway-Physick chaired a PACE evaluation session at 4th World Environmental Education Congress in Durban. Along with the evaluation questionnaires sent out to organisations with the PACE materials, this has been a vital source of feedback. Some positive comments: "The books are well illustrated and it will be very easy for the teacher or instructor to communicate to the pupils. The activities are very practical for the children and relevant." Lewa Education Trust, Kenya "…the contents in these packs are quite relevant for our local contexts and they contain local example and case studies in Tanzania, and this adds value to a sense of ownership for the target audience. I was amazed how resourceful they are" Enoch Chengullah, WWF Tanzania Constructive comments received: "Making inexpensive, non-digital versions of the PACE materials available would make use and distribution to a broader community easier in the African context" Comment from WEEC session participant Several organisations pointed out the need for teacher training using the resources (e.g): "We believe that there is more of a chance of a resource being used if the teachers have been exposed to it in such a situation so they understand all that is in it and how to use it." Birdlife Botswana. Many of the organizations receiving the resources now integrate PACE materials into their teacher training work, for example Jane Goodall Institute in Uganda and Belvedere Technical Teachers College, Zimbabwe.
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 More PACE packs printed due to high demand
26 November 2007
The PACE pack has gone into its second edition, as further funding enabled the delivery of 1,000 packs to the Ecoschools Programme in South Africa (run by WESSA, Wildlife and Environment of South Africa). See attached photo of the goods being received. |
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