BRCS organizes GCC course on expanding green spaces

  • Date: 07-Jan-2021
  • Source: Bizbahrain
  • Sector:Agriculture
  • Country:Gulf
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BRCS organizes GCC course on expanding green spaces

The Bahrain Red Crescent Society (BRCS) declared its intention to organize an environmental course in cooperation with the Arab Red Crescent and Red Cross organization, to focus on protecting the environment in GCC states through increasing green spaces inside and outside homes and workplaces. The Society will organize this course remotely over three days from 11 to 13 January, in the presence of representatives of the Red Crescent and the Red Cross societies of the Gulf Cooperation Council, and the course will be lectured by Dr. Nilofer Jahromi, Head of Charity Agricultural Project at the Society, assisted by the members of the committee of agricultural engineers and environmental specialists. Mr. Mubarak Al Hadi, Bahrain Red Crescent Act General Secretary, stressed that this course comes within the framework of the society's keenness to include the environmental aspect in its relief and humanitarian work, as environmental disasters such as floods, desertification, and severe heat waves constitute one of the most serious challenges to humans, and reducing their danger is everyone's responsibility. “In this context, I refer to a recent call by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies regarding the need to urgently confront climate warming, and the Federation's warning of