Dear Sir,

We are members of Kids to the Rescue – an eco-club at Francis Patton Primary School. Our club meets after school on Mondays, and sometimes we take field trips on Saturdays with our club. We like picking up the trash on and around our school because we do not want our area to look unclean, but we enjoy doing many different things to learn about and help our environment.

We have found out about organic food and farming, planted seeds and transplanted plants, adopted a senior citizen's home for Christmas, made up and sang recycling songs at an eco-festival. There are so many things that people can do to help the world become a better place. We say this because we spend much of our time cleaning up trash in the same areas that we cleaned the week before!

We used to ask our club mentor why people littered, but now we see that there are not that many trash bins for recyclables and garbage in this area. We have two bus stops, and there is no container for trash or recyclables at the one going west towards Hamilton. People are too lazy to walk across the street to the cans to throw something away so they just pitch it on the ground or over the wall. We even found a motorbike in the trees!

We are just a small group of kids and the areas we work on are around our school, but we make a difference. If everybody stopped littering we could get more involved in other ways. We could plant our own garden; spend more time at nursing homes, and so much more.

We would like to see more people taking pride in the beauty of Bermuda. We want our world and especially our island to be a better and cleaner place. We would like to challenge the people on our island to help us by making an effort to BE GREEN and KEEP IT CLEAN.

Respectfully,

Kids to the Rescue (KTTR)

Ecology Group

Francis Patton Primary School