MEDIA RELEASE
NO. 184 / 2010
12 MARCH 2010


Seven City of Cape Town staff members received their Environmental Education, Training and Development Practice (EETDP) Learnership qualification this week. At a ceremony held in the Company’s Gardens on Wednesday 10 March Mohammed Faaiz Adams, Paul Arends, Alexander Forbes, Haricharan Ramblass, Jerome September, Glen Takeloo and Joint Xingashe were presented with their certificates.

These City staff changed careers, moving from a technical field, having previously worked at either the decommissioned Athlone Power Station or the now closed Maitland Abattoir, to the environmental education and communication field.

The purpose of the learnership was to:
• Implement environmental learning programmes and action projects in the work context;
• Select, adapt and implement existing environmental learning programmes and use relevant teaching resources to support learning;
• Reflect critically on educational work in terms of environmental justice, sustainability and principles of environmental education;
• Make a meaningful contribution to environmental change through education;
• Facilitate environmental learning programmes.

The EETDP Learnership is equivalent to first-year university training (NQF LEVEL 5 – 120 credits). The Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa (WESSA) was the education and training provider for this qualification.

Mayoral Committee Member for Planning and Environment, Councillor Marian Nieuwoudt, praised the recipients for their commitment to undergoing training to become professional environmental education and communication officers. ”They have taken on the active responsibility to develop their capacity to learn and discover more, to think critically and to better analyse issues,” she said.

Photographs are available. Please contact Lindie Buirski.


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ISSUED BY:
COMMUNICATION DEPARTMENT
CITY OF CAPE TOWN


MEDIA QUERIES:
LINDIE BUIRSKI
HEAD: ENVIRONMENTAL CAPACITY BUILDING, TRAINING AND EDUCATION
TEL: 021 487 2839 CELL: 084 629 9305