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Earth School, Singapore
Earth School Singapore is Singapore’s first non-profit
school for environmental education. Ms Casandra Yip,
a third-year Environmental Studies undergraduate
from the National University of Singapore and an
NYAA Gold Award holder (2018 Cohort), founded
Earth School. Earth School aims to get young children
interested in environmental issues like climate change
and how they can mitigate the crisis by doing simple
things which help reduce carbon emissions, save
water and electricity etc.

NYAA has helped link up Earth School with five primary
schools for the project in December 2021.

Ms Casandra Yip
NYAA Gold Award holder (2018 Cohort)

ITE-SMEs Project initiated by NYAA and HSBC

NYAA initiated the ITE-SMEs project and, supported
by HSBC, was an excellent example that every citizen
can play a part in finding solutions to reduce carbon
emissions. About sixty NYAA participants from the
three ITE Colleges, East, West and Central, worked
in partnership with fifteen Small and Medium
Enterprises (SMEs) for one and a half years, from
2020 to 2021, to find solutions to reduce carbon
emissions.

Despite the COVID-19 pandemics, the ITE students
and SMEs completed the project with excellent
results. In addition, NYAA documented the project’s
findings in the book “Shaping a Sustainable
Singapore”, launched by Ms Grace Fu, Minister for
Sustainability and the Environment, to support the
Singapore Green Plan 2030 on 30 November 2021
at ITE College Central.

“Shaping A Sustainable Singapore”
launched by Ms Grace Fu, Minister for
Sustainability and the Environment.

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