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Educational Storytelling – Learning Through Stories

During the ceremony, we introduced a special storytelling segment to help students and teachers understand:

• the impact of marine pollution,

• the importance of recycling,

• and how recyclables can be transformed into useful products such as recycled shirts and tote bags.

We believe learning the story behind recycling helps build lifelong environmental awareness.

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Turning Waste Into Value – 5,500 Recycled Polo Shirts and 1,500 Recycled Bags

From collected plastic bottles, we produced 5,500 recycled polo shirts.

During the ceremony, 3,600 shirts were donated to contributing schools across St. Kitts and Nevis to appreciate both teachers and students.

The remaining shirts will be used as rewards for future recycling promotion activities — continuing to motivate our young environmental champions!

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Award Results

Highest Total – Early Childhood (Top 10)

1. St. John's Preschool – 257.35 lb

2. Combermere Pre-school – 225.86 lb

3. Cayon Daycare Centre – 201.50 lb

4. Charlestown Preschool

5. Old Road Day Care Centre

6. Inez France Preschool

7. Vanta E Walters Day Care Centre

8. Mcknight Day Care Centre

9. Dieppe Bay Day Care Centre

10. Sandy Point Preschool

Highest Total – Primary School (Top 10)

1. Violet O. Jeffers Nicholls Primary School (2161.07 lb)

2. Epworth/Maurice Hillier Memorial Junior School (1301.80 lb)

3. Tucker Clarke Primary School (863.30 lb)

4. St. Paul's Primary School

5. Charlestown Primary School

6. Edgar T Morris Primary School

7. Cecele Browne Integrated School

8. St. Thomas' Primary School

9. Elizabeth Pemberton Primary School

10. St. Kitts International Academy

Highest Total – Secondary School (Top 3)

1. Washington Archibald High School (1516.50 lb)

2. Dr. Denzil Llewellyn Douglas Secondary School (1455.19 lb)

3. Basseterre High School (676.10 lb)

Highest Average (AVG)

• Nevis – Violet O. Jeffers Nicholls Primary School (VOJN): 36.02 lb/student

• St. Kitts – Ross Preparatory School: 9.69 lb/student

Best Video Awards

• 1st place: The BHS Daily Storm

• 2nd place: WAHS (Washington Archibald High School)

• 3rd place: Elizabeth Pemberton Primary

• Nevis International Secondary School

• Combermere Preschool

• Cecele Browne Integrated School

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Special Thanks

A heartfelt thank you to the Ministry of Education of St. Kitts & Nevis for your strong encouragement and coordination, enabling schools across the Federation to take part wholeheartedly.

We also extend our sincere appreciation to the Solid Waste Management teams from both islands for supporting collection logistics throughout the competition.

And a special thank you to the PROMAR Project for your invaluable ground support — your contribution helped make the ceremony and this entire competition a success.

Together, we are building a cleaner and more sustainable future for St. Kitts and Nevis.