Children for Green New Nepal (CGNN) raises awareness about environmental issues among school aged children and local communities in Nepal. The organization is run entirely by national and international volunteers. CGNN’s activities include school presentations, art-based environmental education, mural paintings, street dramas, tree plantings, and more.

CGNN works with schools throughout Nepal to teach students in an informal matter about current environmental issues, and to help them better understand their connection with the earth. Since launching the project in 2007, CGNN has worked with students at more than fifty different schools.

CGNN uses art and other creative means to involve children in interactive learning about the environment, and to provide them with an outlet for action. To give one example, CGNN organized a school activity that resulted in the creation of 50 pieces of art with environmental themes created by children. The art was then publicly displayed in Kathmandu during one of CGNN’s environmental street performances.

Other CGNN activities include: planting hundreds of trees, most of them placed in the ground by children’s hands; applying over 1,000 volunteer labor-hours toward picking up trash in public places, cleaning and beautifying the city of Kathmandu; putting on four street dramas for fundraising and for spreading an environmental message directly to the public; at Siphal Child Protection Home, over a dozen children and volunteers painted a wall mural celebrating nature; together with local families, starting a community compost project on its office roof; and, in collaboration with Prisoners’ Assistance Nepal and Junkiri School, sponsoring Earth Day activities, including a presentation and tree plantings, at the PA Nepal children’s home in Sankhu. All of CGNN’s activities are carried out with the vision of creating a future of environmentally responsible and sustainability-minded adults by educating the children of today.