University students at Queenstown campus launch environmental club

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At podium a USC member gives welcoming remarks. Mayor Hamilton Green is at centre of head table. To the extreme left is President of the USC Environmental Club and to the Mayor’s immediate right is USC Guyana Extension Site Coordinator, Mignon Maynard-Sancho. To his immediate left are Pastor James and a student of USC.
At podium a USC member gives welcoming remarks. Mayor Hamilton Green is at centre of head table. To the extreme left is President of the USC Environmental Club and to the Mayor’s immediate right is USC Guyana Extension Site Coordinator, Mignon Maynard-Sancho. To his immediate left are Pastor James and a student of USC.

A group of students from the University of the Southern Caribbean, Guyana Extension Site, on Monday  launched an environmental club at their campus in Queenstown, Georgetown, under the theme “Transforming Lives while keeping the Environment Clean”.

What started out as a simple class project given to students by their lecturer as part of their course outline, sparked an idea that turned into this initiative.

Site coordinator Mignon Maynard-Sandford said the course exposed the students to the major issues facing Guyana and the wider world as it relates to pollution and its effects, and this