The United Nations has since 1973 declared 5th of June every year as World Environment Day (WED), this year 2025 marks the 52nd Anniversary of this all-important celebration. This year’s World Environment Day is on the Themes: Globally and nationally: “Beat Plastic Pollution” and One Child equals one tree respectively.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “Environmental Health comprises those aspects of human health, including quality of life, that are determined by physical, biological, social and psycho-social factors in the environment. It also refers to the theory and practice of assessing, correcting, controlling and preventing those factors in the environment that can potentially affect adversely health of present and future generations” (WHO – 1993). The Environmental Health Unit of Bosomtwe District Assembly utilized the opportunity to educate four (4) Senior High Schools on the need to drastically decline the alarming pollution of plastic waste in the district and the country at large. The 2025 theme, “Beat Plastic Pollution,” calls on stakeholders including governments, institution, and citizens to take bold collective step to fight plastic pollution through the principle of the 3R’s – reduce, reuse and recycle.
On Thursday 5th June, 2025 at about 9:48 a.m. the World environment Day was observed in the district concentrating on four (4) selected Senior High Schools namely: St. Georges SHS, Bosomtwe Girls SHS, Jachie Pramso SHS (JAPASS) and Osei Adutwum SHS (OASS). Five (5) trees each were used for demonstration and twenty (20) trees were given to each school making a total of 100 trees. These trees were planted in observation of the 2025 World Environment Day.
The District Environmental Health Officer in the person, Mr. Charles Sasah Tetteh, highlighted on the need to preserve both biotic and abiotic life on earth and the grave danger posed by indiscriminate disposal of plastic wastes on aquatic life. As children, they are agents of behavioural change and could not be exempted but are conferred to play an integral role in the propagation of the message to others so as to protect now generation and generations yet unborn.
Miss Faustina Kokloe an Assistant Environmental Health Analyst imprinted the essence of tree planting as part of the exercise saying, global warming and climate change naturally requires the need for growing more trees to neutralize gases like carbon monoxide expelled from human activities like open burning into the atmosphere which is offensive and injurious to health.
A total of five (5) Millettia trees of the Fabaceae family from the Forestry Commission were brought by Nana Boadi Sackie and Felix Okyere Budu both of National Commission of Civic Education (NCCE) and were planted at Jachie Pramso Senior High School (JAPASS) and Osei Adutwum Senior High School (OASS). Present were, Mr. Kenneth Adu-Poku (Headmaster, OASS), Mrs. Margaret Frimpomaa Andrews (Assistant Domestic, JAPASS) Eric Otchere (HOD Agric Science, JAPASS), Mr. Siaka Mohammed (Snr. House Master, JAPASS), Mrs. Martina Oduro (Assistant Head Domestic, OASS), madam Selina Prah (Assistant administrator, OASS). Names of students in charge of planted trees are: Danso Victory Serwaa, Aboden Asiedu Beatrice Bediide (all of JAPASS) and Simon Frimpong (student), Edmund Addai Agyemang and Hellen Opare both Compound Overseers and Assistant Compound Overseer of OASS.
