Activity Updates from Dushanbe Team

March 18, 2008
9th grade students of Public School #21, Parvizi Hairullo and Daler Abjabarov have visited Public Schools of Firdavsi, Sino and Somoni districts of Dushanbe city, where they met with directors and students of 7 to 9 grades to build friendly relations. In the framework of these meetings, the AAM MCCA Project for Zoo Improvement was presented to the audience and the most active school students were recruited to become volunteers for the Project. Because of numerous questions and expressed interest in the Project, a direct telephone line was organized to support and consult students volunteers for the Dushanbe Zoo.

The initial task of the volunteers is to create an educational database of existing animals at the Dushanbe Zoo. For this task, the student volunteers of Dushanbe city received all necessary instructions and templates to correctly collect the imformation about zoo animals. The Program of Additional Out-of-School Education, implemented by Youth Opportunities NGO and Zoo Project partners by assistance of the Ministry of Education of Tajikistan, will allow and involve active youth of Dushanbe city to take part at international social project, sponsored by the American Association of Museums.

At the very beginning of April, a delegation of professionals and students from Indiana, USA will visit Dushanbe Zoo to jointly plan and organize a series of educational trainings for school students around Dushanbe who will take part in creating of landscape design, animal signs, garden, picnic area and playground for the visitors of Dushanbe zoo.

It is planned to create a volunteer organization for Dushanbe Zoo and build relations with active NGOs who keep focus on development of ecological programms to educate youth in Dushanbe.

Youth Opportunities NGO and Zoo Project partners express special thanks and recognition of students and school directors of Dushanbe city, who assist to arrange necessary events to improve Dushanbe zoo.

- Victor Ibragimov