For these aspiring beauty queens, children can learn to take care of the environment by adopting habit for reading. They retold to some 70 kids the story “Ang Zimbragatzee ng Planeta Zing” by Rene O. Villanueva. Capuno, an environment operations engineer, said kids should learn to value nature while still young. But environmental awareness must be taught in a way that could be understood easily by children. “Storytelling is one way of inculcating in their minds the values why we should take care of our environment,” Janson, a grade school teacher, said.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer May 27, 2017 11:03 UTC