Environmental Art Project 2023 | HELPING HANDS: celebrating environmental volunteers
The Environmental Art Project presented by Mundaring Arts Centre Inc. provides an annual opportunity for primary school children to creatively engage with local and global environmental issues, whilst developing their own positive message about the Earth.
The theme of the 2023 Environmental Art Project, Helping Hands, environmental volunteering challenges teaches, students and parents to explore ways volunteering can help connect people and protect the planet. Volunteers improve places in their community, but they also feel happier because they are satisfied with doing good work and making new friends.
What is volunteering? Have you ever wondered what the benefits are of environmental volunteering? Why do people volunteer? What types of volunteers work in our community?
Volunteers work in groups to look after their community and the environment. Landcare volunteers care for nature reserves by weeding and planting native plants that provide habitat for wildlife. Volunteers in fire brigades can also help look after nature by raking around habitat trees and carefully reducing fuel loads to prevent big wildfires. Volunteers that sort donations for op-shops are also helping the environment, because they are enabling items to be reused and recycled instead of going into landfill. Volunteers in community gardens are helping people learn about growing their own herbs and vegetables, which avoids lots of plastic packaging so that is good for the environment too!
