Green Oaks College, located in Mexican Veracruz State, is working to obtain already its third Green Flag.

This academic year is the Eco-School running again the Global Citizen theme, which includes various activities and mini-projects promoting the values of solidarity and sustainability.

The Global Citizen theme is operated at the Green Oaks College through The Commission for Support for the Community, which is in place since 2011 and involves the students, teachers, parents in giving direction to the collective actions. The aim is to raise the students to become committed citizens within their society, ensuring that the new generations develop a strong social consciousness, support the most needed and promote students' participation in social life, policymaking, economy and culture of Mexico.

One of the activities organized was the visit of Green Oaks College students in “Boquenitos” Kinder Garden in January 2020. During their visit, students of secondary school spend their day and played with the children from this center. Through social service, the students are to become more sensitive to social issues and strengthen their values such as tolerance, empathy, respect and social inclusion. The activity was also designed to ferment the social service spirit in them and help them understand and be grateful for what they own in their lives.

Green Oaks College, under the Global Citizen theme, organizes among other activities also the annual clothes collection, a Thanksgiving or a Green Night, all aiming to sensitize the students to social issues and bringing a benefit for the community. As another example could serve the Green Paw Project, which took for its goal that the “Bocana community” will become the first one without stray animals.

We at Eco-Schools are happy to see such initiatives and wish Green Oaks College and its students all the best luck!