Princess Lalla Hasnaa chairs green flag award ceremony for labeled Ecoschools

    Nine schools among the 17 that joined the Eco-Schools programme received the "green flag", which rewards the schools that managed to come up with solutions to "Water, Energy and Waste" related-issues.

    Princess Lalla Hasnaa attended a play that was performed by pupils enrolled in the Eco-Schools programme and handed the green flag to the labeled schools and visited an exhibition on waste sorting and processing, prepared by pupils involved in this programme.

    She also handed out encouragement certificates to eight other schools, part of the programme.

    This year the programme touched 9,000 pupils and it eyes to involve 2 million pupils in the 2009-2010 academic year, according to the Mohammed VI Foundation for Environment Protection.

    In its experimental phase, the programme touched 8,471 pupils in 17 schools located in 9 regions of the kingdom.

    The Eco-Schools program, launched in Morocco in November 2006, encourages all stakeholders to engage in an process of optimization to improve waste management and the use of water and energy.