Sola Alamutu: GCLF Facilitator

Sola Alamutu is the brain behind Children and the Environment (CATE), an organisation that creates awareness in children about the importance of the environment. She is a co-author of CATE Saves the Ikopi Rainforest, a children’s book that won the 2004 ANA Prize for Children’s Literature. Alamutu, author of two activity books for children aged four to eight and nine to fourteen.

She will facilitate the Children Creative Workshops at the GCLF, along with Polly Alakija. 

CATE Organises CleanUP&GreenUP

Children and the Environment (CATE) is organising its Let's Do It! Mushin, Lagos as its annual Cleanup and Greenup Your Neighbourhood Campaign.

Date: Saturday, 15 September. 

The cleaning exercise is supported by CATE members and friends-green organizations like Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), Keys To Wellness (KTW), Positive Development Foundation (pdf), Youth Pioneer for Development Organisation (YPDO), Youth Vision Alliance Network (YVAN), Olaokecity Ventures and ICStudios. 

CATE's Sola Alamutu will facilitate the children creative workshops, along with Polly Alakija at the GCLF 2012.  

CATE celebrates 13

Children and the Environment (CATE) is an NGO working with children and young people to build awareness on environmental matters. It also promotes sustainable ecotourism as a tool for poverty alleviation in targeted communities.

The celebration of the 13th anniversary of CATE's founding holds tomorrow, Saturday 16th June, 2012 at the CORA office, 1st Floor, 95, Bode Thomas Street, Surulere, Lagos.

The CATE Team was at GCLF last year. Led by author Sola Alamutu, they took 100 children, (fifty primary school and fifty secondary school students) through a three-day series of creative writing, arts and drama workshops on the theme "Reading and Leading." At the conclusion of the workshops the GCLF Director Koko Kalango presented over 200 students with a bag of books sponsored by the Rivers State Sustainable Development Agency, headed by Noble Pepple.