The water has gone through no sanitation process. Despite this serious problem, students at Agou Gadwefe have actively participated in promoting environmental awareness and are learning about sustainable development. Students of Agou Gadwefe play a leading role in a tree-planting celebration. In collaboration with other institutions, pupils helped produce and distribute more than 1000 young eucalyptus and acacia plants to other schools and farmers for the celebration of Arbor Day, June 1st. Pupils also started a botanical nursery, learning how to cultivate food.
Students can sell the produce to their parents with the proceeds going to help the school.
Through this activity, pupils learn about saving money and the fundamentals of small businesses. Since the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, schools in eastern Europe have changed the way they participate in the ASP network. With more freedom to direct their own education, concepts of human rights, peace and tolerance have come to the forefront of their curricula. As Ciril Kosmac Elementary School in the small town of Piran, Slovenia has demonstrated, international networks, used to their maximum potential, are an invaluable resource. For one week during the camp, 10-12 year old students from Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Italy, Norway, Ukraine and Slovenia come together to learn and play.