SUNx expands climate-friendly ‘Education 4 Action’ with ‘Dodo 4 Kids’

On this World Tour­ism Day, SUN^x Malta is delighted to announce the expan­sion of our Edu­ca­tion 4 Action pro­gram, pla­cing a spe­cial focus on the future lead­ers of tomor­row: our chil­dren, the ones who will have to deal with an inev­it­ably worsen­ing exist­en­tial cli­mate crisis.

Cent­ral to this expan­sion is ‘Dodo 4 Kids’, which is designed to inspire and edu­cate young minds about the import­ance of Cli­mate Friendly Travel.

To be avail­able to tour­ism com­pan­ies and schools, Dodo 4 Kids is a series of ini­ti­at­ives to extend the whole Cli­mate Friendly Travel mind­set to school-age kids:

• Sixty made-for-TV car­toons, fea­tur­ing Dodo and envir­on­ment­al challenges.
• Travel e‑books for schools and hotels fea­tur­ing Dodo and loc­al kids; sup­por­ted by col­our­ing and music.
• Sig­na­ture Dodo study tours to bring sol­ar power and bet­ter con­nectiv­ity to loc­al schools through our part­ner Glob­al Him­alay­an Exped­i­tions and loc­al sponsors.

Tak­ing as a sym­bol the Dodo, the kindly flight­less bird from Maur­i­ti­us exterm­in­ated by thought­less sail­ors from Europe cen­tur­ies ago, Dodo 4 Kids is focused on help­ing sup­port cli­mate justice for the world’s poorest coun­tries and small island devel­op­ing states (SIDS).

Geof­frey Lip­man, Pres­id­ent of SUN^x Malta, speak­ing at the Bali Eco­tour­ism World Tour­ism Day Cel­eb­ra­tions said: “The next gen­er­a­tions are where we pin our hopes for a bright­er tomor­row, with clean and green tour­ism at the core, and where cli­mate justice is baked in.

“Through the Dodo 4 Kids pro­gram, we’re stim­u­lat­ing young minds to become Cham­pi­ons of Cli­mate Friendly Travel from an early age, giv­ing them the tools and know­ledge to cre­ate the future we want.”

About SUN^x Malta

SUN^x Malta is a leg­acy for the late Maurice Strong, fath­er of sus­tain­able devel­op­ment. Its goal is to advance Cli­mate Friendly Travel (CFT) ~ Par­is 1.5 and SDG linked. 

SUN^x has a core part­ner­ship with Malta’s Min­istry of Tour­ism and Malta Tour­ism Author­ity, to advance CFT, to cre­ate a UNFC­CC-linked CFT Registry, and to pro­mote CFT Edu­ca­tion. It plans to put in place 100,000 Strong Cli­mate Cham­pi­ons across all UN States by 2030.

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