Women Leading the Way to a Greener Future

 March 8, International Women’s Day, is a meaningful day to recognize the social, cultural, and economic contributions of women. Women play an important role in building a sustainable world with their sensitivity to nature, productivity, and the values they pass on to future generations. Their efforts and guidance are very valuable in spreading awareness of climate-friendly living and raising environmentally conscious individuals. On this meaningful day, we celebrate International Women’s Day of all women who help make our world a better place to live.

Our school, guided by the vision of "Green Compass" and "Climate-Friendly Living," has taken another giant step in the fight against environmental pollution. Vegetable waste oils, which have the potential to pollute thousands of liters of clean water when poured down the drain, are being transformed into eco-friendly soaps by our students.

"Recycle Your Waste, Make Nature Smile"

As part of a social responsibility campaign coordinated by our school administration and teachers, all our students and parents collected their waste oils from home and delivered them to the school. The collected oils were then processed into soap using traditional methods, representing the purest form of recycling.

An Educational and Sustainable Experience

Thanks to this activity, our students not only created a product but also gained invaluable experience in waste management and water resource conservation by observing chemical processes. The soap-making process, as part of the school's sustainability manifesto, served the following fundamental goals:

Water Resource Conservation: Preventing 1 million liters of clean water from being polluted by 1 liter of waste oil.

Recycling Awareness: It was concretely demonstrated that waste is not "garbage," but a new "raw material."

Productivity: Our students experienced the pride of transforming a substance that harms nature into a useful product that provides hygiene.

Leaving a Clean Footprint for the Future

Our project team stated: "Our aim is not only to provide our students with theoretical knowledge, but also to train them as nature volunteers who produce solutions to environmental problems. Each soap we produce is a symbol of the digital and physical steps we take for a cleaner world." They emphasized the importance of the event with these words.

Our school will continue to be a pioneer in its region with its climate-friendly projects and environmental activities, and to work to leave a more livable world for future generations.

 

Our project activity received great interest at the District Directorate of National Education and was shared on all official social media platforms.

 

Students of Erdemli Ertuğrul Gazi Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School Produced Soap from Waste Oil!

 

Students of Erdemli Ertuğrul Gazi Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School Produced Soap from Waste Oil!

Our students carried out the “Soap Making from Waste Oil” activity to raise environmental awareness and turn waste oil into a useful product. Through this activity, students experienced the positive impact of recycling on the environment and strengthened their sustainability awareness. This activity shows how small steps can make a big difference and encourages students to take responsibility for an eco-friendly future.

 As part of our project, we held a waste oil collection and soap-making activity with a recycling theme at our school. Our students collected the waste oils accumulated at home and brought them to school, and we conducted awareness-raising activities about the harm these oils cause to the environment. The collected waste oils were transformed into soap with the necessary safety precautions. Thanks to this activity, our students learned about the harm that waste oils cause to water resources and soil, and also experienced a concrete and productive example of recycling. They gained important awareness about sustainable living by seeing that even a small amount of waste can be transformed into an environmentally friendly product when processed in the right way.

 As part of the Green Compass: Climate-Friendly Living Through Digital Steps eTwinning project, students designed environment-themed digital games in December. The games were embedded into brochures using QR codes, allowing students to share interactive content and promote climate-friendly living through creative and engaging digital tools.

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As part of the Green Compass: Climate-Friendly Living Through Digital Steps eTwinning project, the “Chain Manifesto” activity was successfully implemented as the January activity. Within the scope of this activity, students collaborated to create a joint digital product focusing on environmental awareness and sustainable living, with the participation of project partners from Türkiye, Italy, Greece, and Romania.

During the activity, students from each partner school prepared manifesto statements related to environmental protection, responsibility, and climate-friendly living. Following in-school discussions, evaluations, and voting processes, one manifesto statement representing each school was selected and shared with the project coordinator. The selected statements were then combined into a sequential digital flow using the Genially platform, resulting in the joint product titled the “Chain Manifesto.”

The manifesto was designed according to a chain structure, allowing users to navigate through the content only by using the “next” buttons. This structure ensures that each statement is read in sequence, preventing users from skipping ahead without reading the previous message. In this way, each partner’s contribution became an essential part of the manifesto, reinforcing the collaborative nature of the product.

Through this activity, the project aimed to help students:

• develop awareness of environmental sustainability,

• take responsibility and participate in democratic decision-making processes,

• collaborate with international teams to create a shared digital product.

The “Chain Manifesto” activity contributed to students’ development not only as environmentally conscious individuals but also as active and responsible global citizens. Throughout the project, similar collaborative and value-based activities will continue to support the learning process.