The Dhaka Times Desk International School Dhaka (ISD) has launched the Young Sustainability Award to create more environmental awareness among students.
Sustainability Day is observed globally on 26 October every year. This year's theme is #bitplasticpollution. In line with this theme, the award will be given to projects with the most creative and innovative ideas to combat plastic pollution.
Inspired by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ISD is working on effective and innovative ways to raise awareness of environmental sustainability. ISD students will be awarded for demonstrating sustainable and effective projects in school that align with any of the SDG goals.
International School Dhaka director Steve Calland-Scoble said, “Our world's natural resources are slowly being depleted. Besides, we also have to deal with various negative effects of previous work.
Our program will equip ISD students with the knowledge and enthusiasm that will help them understand and engage with the SDGs as conscious global citizens.” He further said, “Our students have already developed extraordinary and unique thinking and initiatives in ensuring sustainability. We will celebrate this with an award ceremony later this year at the ISD campus.”
Note that the ISD has a Green Committee that is working tirelessly to advance sustainability as a central value and practice in all areas of the community. News bulletins.
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How to prevent dengue
Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral fever. This fever is different from other viral or bacterial fevers. However, this fever is not contagious in any way. This viral fever can occur alone or in combination with other viruses (chikungunya, yellow fever, Burma forest, flu, respiratory syncytial) and bacteria (pneumococcus).
Dengue fever is divided into two categories depending on the severity of symptoms and fever.
1. Common dengue fever
2. Dengue fever with bleeding.
In the case of common dengue fever, the following symptoms are mainly seen-
1. Sudden high fever lasting 2 to 7 days.
2. Severe headache.
3. Pain behind the eyes.
4. Along with the fever, red rash appears all over the body.
5. Severe pain in whole body as well as back pain.
6. Nausea or vomiting.
7. A rash or red bumps on the skin.
In case of dengue fever with bleeding:
1. Bleeding from nose, mouth or vomiting with high fever within 2 to 48 hours.
2. Fluid accumulation in chest or abdomen along with fever.
If any of these symptoms appear, seek medical attention immediately.
On the other hand
Wait at home for the first 3 days of fever. On the other hand, sponge the whole body with water every now and then. This will reduce the level of fever. Drink enough water and rest. After that, if the fever does not decrease or if it continues to increase after some time, consult a doctor immediately.
Things to do to prevent Dengue:
1. Try to keep the surroundings of the house as clean as possible.
2. If there are flower tubs or broken plastic bottles, can shells, tires or polythene inside the house, clean them quickly and drain the accumulated water from the flower tubs.
3. Spray or fog at least 3 times a week to kill mosquitoes.
4. You can keep mosquito repellent cream with you while going out.
5. After evening, younger and older members of the household should use mosquito nets.
6. Clean up any accumulated rain water, as this is the time when Aedes mosquitoes lay their eggs.
7. On the other hand, you can use mats along with mosquito nets to avoid mosquito infestation.
8. Since Aedes mosquitoes bite during the day, it is important to avoid sleeping with mosquito nets while sleeping during the day. Source: https://dmpnews.org
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