By: Pratama Aditya & Natalia Trita Agnika

In the first week of November 2015, Panda Mobile visited several schools in Bandung, West Java. Some schools in Bandung visited by WWF-Indonesia's educational truck are SDN Cikeruh 01 Jatinangor, SDN Ciawi Jatinangor, SDN Bojongloa 2 Rancaekek, SDN Tanjungsari 4, SDN Cikeruh 2, and SD Al Ma'soem Rancaekek. Various environmental-themed activities were delivered by the Panda Mobile team to the elementary school students. In one of the schools, there were 29 students from special school classes with disabilities. This shows that Panda Mobile is spreading the message of conservation to everyone.

Panda Mobile's presence in Bandung this time was at the invitation of HERO (Chemistry for Society), Padjadjaran University, Bandung in order to raise awareness to the community about environmental awareness. Several students from Padjadjaran University also participated directly by becoming Panda Mobile volunteers.

In each school, the beginning of the activity is always opened with interesting storytelling from Kak Ryan. Through his storytelling accompanied by guitar playing, he mesmerized the children with a story about plastic waste. Through the story, they understood more about the dangers of plastic waste for the environment and animals. After listening to this storytelling, it is hoped that the students will have an awareness of not littering.

Next, in turn, they watched a movie about tiger, elephant and orangutan poachers on the Panda Mobile truck. In this session, the children looked very enthusiastic because they could climb onto the truck and see the contents of the Panda Mobile more closely. After watching the movie, they were eager to answer questions from the volunteers. The students were also invited to observe the environment around them, including leaves, rocks, grass, and plastic. By observing every change that occurs around them, students can become more sensitive to any changes that occur in the environment.

Not only learning in theory, the children also had the opportunity to directly practice activities that can reduce the amount of waste through 3R activities (reduce, reuse, recycle). Guided by volunteers, they transformed used cardboard boxes into beautiful photo frames. In some schools, the 3Rs activity involved making paper bags from old newspapers. By creating these unused items, the students understand that unused items can be reused so that they don't just end up as waste.