World Toilet Day

La Catedral de la Lluvia y El mundo es bosque

During the month of December, several visits of 4th ESO students to Laboral Art Centre and Industrial Creation have been carried out on the occasion of the celebration of World Toilet Day, which EMA Gijón commemorates every year . This year, in collaboration with Laboral Art Centre, several disciplines such as art, science and languages have come together to celebrate this event. Our students have had the privilege of seeing the premiere of the sound and visual artwork by Juanjo Palacios, La Catedral de la Lluvia, in which the process of creation of the storm tank of Hermanos Castro Park ,and its subsequent use, can be heard. The sensations perceived and the follow-up reflection have shown the need and importance of both  environmental civil engineering works, in this case related to the use of water and hidden from the view of citizens, and the relevance of art to bring these needs of the city to the viewers in a different way. 

After the first visit to the Catedral de la Lluvia, the students of 4ºESO Bilingual Programme attended La Ser radio programme, Hoy por Hoy, where the student Carlos Herminio Carballo, three times winner of the environmental storytelling contest of the City of Gijón, and his English teacher Ángeles González Bango were interviewed. Students Mara García, Claudia López and Laura Yáñez also answered questions from the presenter. 

Later on, they were invited to see the exhibition El mundo es bosque / El mundu ye viesca, where they were immersed in a fantastic biome inspired by the Asturian forests and the worlds of science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin.

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World Toilet Day

World Toilet Day is celebrated on 19th November and it has been the desire of the Bilingual Programme to delve into all the problems caused by the absence of sanitation, as 4.2 billion people in the world still do not have access to a toilet.

One of the UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 is access to clean water and sanitation. Only when the entire world population has this, can article 25 of the Human Rights, in which the right to health is discussed, be fulfilled.

   The "Pee, Poo and Paper" campaign, organized by the EMA, gave a workshop in English to students of 1st and 2nd bilingual ESO, which emphasized the need not to throw in the toilet nothing but what the campaign motto preaches.