A few weeks ago we visited one of the schools that entered their creative dramatization into the wildlife society conservation's Maya Forest Corridor story telling competition. Today the winner of the competition was revealed and Jomarie Lanza attended the event:
The winner of the The wildlife conservation society's Maya Forest corridor story telling competition was announced today after two weeks of performances and an intense round of judging and verifying scores.
The Communications coordinator told us that it was a tight competition between two schools, however Saint Joseph Roman Catholic school from Cotton Tree Village emerged as the competition's very first champion.
Desiree Arzu, WCS, Communications Coordinator
"So today was the official award ceremony for the Maya Forest corridor, storytelling competition. The students who participated we had six schools from the buffer communities of the Maya forest corridor that participated and today we awarded the first ever MFC storytelling champion which is Saint Joseph Roman Catholic school from Cotton Tree Village, there were five students who did a presentation Second place went to Belize rural primary school and third place was a solo presentation from one student of Pilgrim Fellowship in Hativille.We also had some outstanding teachers award which went to two teachers from Belize rural primary school as well as two teachers from the winning school cotton tree and we also had an outstanding student award which went to Arihanna Dawson from Pilgrim Fellowship school. It's a combination of two weeks of stiff, I would say very stiff competition between the schools because actually two schools that came out on top. It was very close in points, and the judges had a hard time deciding at the end who to give the award to, but in the end, we decided that cotton tree did a very good job with the criteria presented to them and they were awarded the first ever MFC storytelling champion this year."
When the competition was first launched, the WCS hoped that it would encourage students who live in the buffer communities to research and learn more about how they can protect the Maya Forest corridors of Belize. In addition to motivating children to teach others - particularly adults - about why we should look after our Maya forests.
Desiree Arzu, WCS, Communications Coordinator
"And the objective of all of this was for these students to do research about the Maya Forest corridor, identifying some of the issues that are happening in the Maya forest corridor, but even further to present some of the solutions that they think can happen, and I have said this before we think that it's important to reach to the younger generation because us adults are already stuck in our ways and we think that the youths are the ones who can give this information of conservation to adults who might not have or might not want to listen to other adults but if my child is telling me you know mom, this is what you should do. I am more interested in listening to him or her rather than an adult coming to tell me what to do so we think reaching the young people is an excellent idea to bring this message of conservation to the public."
Student, Saint Joseph's Roman Catholic
"Well, the whole Story was based on how to protect the Maya forest corridor, and how, in which ways we must protect and plant more trees, and doing more things that can help our environment. And to think of our actions and how it affects the wild life which is a big impact for the Maya forest corridor and that we must have a more positive impact on the MFC and we are asking our citizens to join us in protecting the Maya forest corridor."
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