ADJAF is a group of people working with various stakeholders to teach primary pupils environment conservation issues and enable them to pursue careers in the aviation sector among other issues.
The group is working closely with the Ministry of Education, Sports, Art and Culture, Airforce of Zimbabwe, Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) and other private flying schools.
ADJAF Communications Manager, Jabulani Hadebe, said the quiz contest was meant to assist pupils master issues surrounding environment conservation and to gain insight on careers in the aviation sector.
He said pupils from Bulawayo and Harare would participate in the quiz contest but he did not give total number of participants.
Im pleased to say that everything is now in order. We have prepared questions from information that we got from cultural heritage and environment conservation. We therefore call upon parents and schools to support us by making their children available, he said.
Hadebe said the programmes they were promoting were meant to provide basic practical information on aviation and environment related subjects.
We have taken more than eight primary pupils since 2007 to airports in the country helping them have a feel of the aviation sector. Now it is the time for us to see whether they learnt anything from the trips that we organised for them.
These trips were always spiced up with tourism of some kind where we took children to places that are key to our history and culture, places such as Chipangali and Khami Ruins, he said
The Minister of Education Sports and Culture David Coltart gave the project his blessing.
It is a noble move and we are looking forward to seeing it take off the ground, he said.
The communications manager said the group was formed in 2007 and since then they have been engaging pupils on practical lessons.
Several programmes have been going on since our inception in 2007. But I must emphasise that our aim is assist children to be friendly with the environment and also to assist them in terms of career choices in the aviation sector, he said.
We have also taught them to protect the endangered species to prevent their extinction. You will realise that we target primary school pupils because most of their studies are based on environment and we want to capture them while they are young.
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