Kids for Earth

Hi everyone,

So its been a full year of Kids for Earth (actually, a bit more).

First of all, and most importantly: sorry to everyone who participated to the YTL Climate Change workshop; I have been unacceptably lazy in putting anything up I’ve had a lot going on, but I hope you are all keeping to date with the list! Myself and my sister are going to France for the next six weeks, but you can contact us on this website, or you can email me at gabrieltseng@kidsforearthasia.com

Next, after a year at work, we’ve got a whole line of products, which we’ll be putting up on the ‘our products‘ page. This includes our ‘Billy the Plastic Bag’ book, which was launched during YTL’s Climate Change Week, with Ms Ruth Yeoh.

As well as working with YTL, we have also worked with astro to create a one minute video that is on astro TVIQ ( channel 552). We plan to create four more fillers with astro.

Now, we have shown the Billy the Plastic Bag presentation to around 2000 children, not counting everyone who saw it on astro TVIQ. We have published a book, and now sell 6 different bags. We’ve been on several newspapers, and we have been interviewed live both on TV and a radio: TV3 and BFM 89.9. Also, we have hosted 2 workshops, one in cooperation with Leo club of Raub, and one in cooperation with YTL’s climate change week.

It has been a great year, and thank you for everyone who helped us and supported us.

Hey guys,

We’ve been online for nearly 5 months now, so time for an update;

The site’s growing! We’ve got nearly 50,000 views, and growing! We’re also up to 42 posts.

If there’s anyone who would like to contribute to our posts, you can

a) register (top right hand corner), log in, and write a post.

b) E-mail me your post at gabrieltseng@kidsforearthasia.com

Thanks

Our  new cotton bags are ready!

They are really practical, small  when folded but big to carry all your stuff!

The Christmas Bazaar is tomorrow, woohoo! Time to do your Christmas shopping and to buy Kids For Earth’s new grocery bags. With cool and flashy designs, created by Alice Smith students, we’re sure to sell plenty of bags. The bags will cost RM 10, as usual, but unlike the wine bags and most normal shopping bags, these are roll-up cotton bags, extremely convenient and easy to keep in your hand bag at all times (so you’ve got absolutely NO excuse for using a plastic bag now!). Hope to see you at the Bazaar at Alice Smith Jalan Bellamy tomorrow night! And if you dare use a plastic bag…

If you go to a school within the proximity of KL, and would like to help Kids for Earth ‘spread the message’, we will be having a short informal meeting on Sunday the 13th this month.

There are plenty of stuff to do, and if you want to get involved in Kids for Earth, e-mail me at gabrieltseng@kidsforearthasia.com.

Hope to see you there.

All 500 bags arrived one day early. Here are some pics I took of one:

The reviews are all very positive:

Vorace the Vinegar Bottle: “This bag is great! Absolutely brilliant! No more clanking and knocking when I’m carried around. And, being a glass bottle, this bag is absolutely perfect for me!”

Moby the Milk Carton: “… (This bag) is much more useful than normal bags; here, we cannot fall and leak, and we are much more comfortable.”

Wally the Water Bottle has refused to comment because he is too comfortable in the bag.

Clink and Clonk the Cans: “Two can fit in a section! It’s incredible how flexible this bag is; it is only intended for bottles, but we fit inside too!”

The bags can be bought at the EP summer fair this Sunday for 10 RM each. 

Yes! Our first grocery bags are to be picked up this Friday – all 500 of them. They’ll be sold at the summer fair. They’re actually very original – they are bottle bags, with six compartments to insert bottles – wine bottles, vinegar bottles, ketchup bottles. Actually, you can even put in cans and milk cartons! They are very cool (an you really need one).

Thanks to Ms Smiles for letting us use her bags as a model.