Why RioKids www.riokids.net is a web project in which young people born in the year of the Rio Earth Summit offer personal, creative responses to the sustainable development of our planet. The project launched on the World Wide Web on 25 August 2002, the eve of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg a.k.a. Earth Summit 2002 or Rio +10. The children’s work explores a variety of issues raised by the Rio Earth Summit such as recycling of waste, protecting coastal environments and natural habitats. Children from four primary schools in and around Bristol - Easton Primary, Four Acres Primary, Luckwell Primary and Winscombe Primary - spent the second half of the summer term producing work for the website. The children began by researching some of the issues raised by the Rio Summit's conclusions on sustainable development. They then went on to make their own creative responses to how they felt about the issues and how they affected them personally and in their own locality. The resulting work, as featured on the web site, presents a ten year old’s view of sustainable development, through pictures, writing and photography. The website also carries an invitation to other schools and children, both nationally and internationally, to submit work and become part of the project. Credits: Project Manager: Project Coordination, Project Support: RioKids has been developed by Watershed from an original idea by,
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