World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan (WWF-P) in collaboration with Shoop Noodles of Shan Foods launched Spellathon 2013-14 across Pakistan. The inaugural event of this year's Spellathon campaign was attended by a large number of students, where they were entertained by a magic and puppet show organised by Shan Shoop Noodles, disclosed a WWF-P's spokesperson on Monday.
The event was hosted by Beaconhouse School System, GT campus. Through this campaign the students will not only learn about the significance of environmental protection and nature conservation, but will also get an opportunity to win prizes. To further encourage the students to actively participate in this campaign, Shan Foods is conducting a lucky draw for students. These activities will continue in various schools across the region with more than 50,000 students.
Speaking on the occasion, a representative of Shan Foods, Sana said it is really important to educate the youth and inculcate a sense of responsibility in them towards nature so that they may play their role as responsible members of the society.
Sania Khan, WWF-P Manager Corporate Relations, elaborated on the role of WWF-P in reaching out to the masses via various student outreach programmes. She said it is heartening to receive such a positive feedback from the students.
It may be mentioned that WWF-P has been conducting the nation-wide environment spelling competition for the past 17 years. Spellathon has evolved into one of the largest environmental education campaigns of WWF-P with a significant increase in the number of participating students from 25,000 students in 1996 to 125,000 in the last year.