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IEBER.LV provides 34 educational institutions in Cēsis region with the opportunity to receive free, unique methodological material on environmental protection.
Educational institutions care about our future every day and inspire growth. Our family company SIA IEBER.LV also fulfills its mission every day to inspire buyers to take small steps towards a sustainable everyday life by conducting workshops, giving lectures and wrapping environmentally friendly holiday packages. That is why we became publishers and created methodological material: Giant coloring poster about environmental protection ZERO WASTE CITY.
Thanks to the opportunity provided by the Society Integration Fund, we have become the owners of the “Family-Friendly Workplace” status and received support in the grant competition, as a result of which we can provide 34 educational institutions in Cēsis region with methodological material: a poster we created. This makes it possible to optimize the range of educational materials, because one poster covers both the basic things from the Zero Waste pyramid and additional topics. For example, about wind generators, allotments and bees.
The goal of the application for the grant competition was to introduce family-friendly work organization practices and popularize a family-friendly attitude in society, using the Giant ZERO WASTE CITY coloring poster with a story in Latvian and English about environmental sustainability. This project is like a bridge for families to learn and apply small steps towards a sustainable everyday life.
As a result of the initiative, the beneficiaries are employees, their families and the wider community, namely all students of Cēsis region educational institutions with their families. Including the families of our employees. Because it is the younger generation that most easily brings innovations to families.
As a result of the project, students from Cēsis region are given the opportunity, during their studies, to learn about small steps towards a sustainable everyday life, to tell about them at home, to listen to the story again with their families and, if they wish, to purchase a Giant ZERO WASTE CITY coloring poster for their own family, to enjoy well-being and awareness together or to please the families of their friends and relatives, as there will be information about the availability of such methodological material as a well-being tool.
This project is like a small step towards our big goal, to create a village of small steps, which would combine a preschool with a nursing home, have childcare and senior nannies, which would provide support to families who do not have grandparents to look after their children, for example, in the summer when parents have to work. The village would have the opportunity to learn and apply information about small steps to protect the environment, organize camps for families on sustainability, and “rent” a nanny for a few days or the whole summer.
To protect the environment as much as possible, we did not stick the QR code stickers of the poster description and story on the packaging envelopes, but sent them electronically to the e-mails of educational institutions, in cooperation with the Cēsis municipality. So that it is convenient for schools and preschool educational institutions to distribute it to teachers electronically, but print only 1 piece to post next to the poster when it is placed on the wall. Thus, no new waste is created during the project implementation, because the methodological instructions are distributed electronically, the poster is used in the long term as methodological material and its transportation envelope is without stickers, allowing it to be used repeatedly for sending or storing documents. But after wear and tear, the envelope can be composted or recycled together with waste paper.
