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Environmental Awareness Series Scripts The following scripts may be used to develop your own Public Service Announcements. We only request that you contact us, to let us know how you are using them. Seedlings and their Master by Joshua T.K. Abbey   Theme Deforestation Message Trees are our Partners Action to Do Let us love and protect trees for our own good. Summary Tree seedlings are very happy when they were planted and cared for to grow. So they promised to provide mankind most of their need if only they will care for them. SCRIPT   Announcer   Trees are very important, they do so many things for us. Listen to this sad story of how a man broke his promise to his trees. When the man first planted the trees, the seedlings were very happy and offered to do so many things for him. Seedling (Happy voice) Master, God Bless you. We seedlings promise to serve you in any way we can. We shall bear fruit, provide you and your animals shelter, protect you against strong winds, purify the air for you to breathe, protect the soil and many other things. Man That is kind of you. I shall keep you safe. Seedling Good. We the trees shall remain your servants forever. So take very good care of us. Announcer Years pass and the seedlings have now grown into trees. The man has broken his promise and begun to start to cut the trees.   (Chopping Sounds) Seedlings (Trees) Please! Remember we are the trees that bore you fruit to eat, we provided you with shelter, and we protected your house against strong wind. Most importantly, we change the carbon dioxide you breathe out into oxygen for you to breathe. Man (Impatient) Look! I need the land here to cultivate the crops to feed my family Seedlings (Trees) (sad) You will lose our services, if you continue to destroy all of us on this earth and the place will become unsafe for you to live in. The last human beings will die the very day the last tree will be cut down. Please stop cutting us. The longer we live the longer you will also live and the happier you will be. Announcer Protect the trees and you will protect the environment for the future. Chief of Tongo by Bertha Nabil Theme Deforestation Message Save our motherland from deforestation Action Stop the Indiscriminate Felling of trees Summary The chief of Tongo is worried because their farm lands are turning into desert. He calls the people together to take action to stop desertification. Script   Announcer A wise chief is worried about his village. He sees that the people are not caring for the land, and that soon the village will be destroyed. He calls his people together, to talk to them about the land.   (Sound of people shuffling fading out) Chief I have called you here today to talk to you about our future. Desertification is caused by our ignorance, by over-cultivating and by h bad farming methods. This will result in the depletion of the soil nutrients and the exposure of the soil to the agents of erosion that will end in desertification. Furthermore, bush burning, overgrazing and cutting of trees destroys the vegetative cover of the soil and all its nutrients leaving the soil bare poor for growing. We are suffering because we are abusing our motherland. Let us plant more trees and replace any tree whenever we cut it. Lets stop overgrazing and bush-burning to make our land a safe place to live. Let us stop desertification and save our motherland for the future. Announcer Listen to our wise chief. Protect the environment for the future. Prevent Bushfires by Sampson Mbena Akubire Theme  Bushfires Message  Bushfires destroy crops and livelihoods Action  Prevent Bushfires Summary  Mr Kusi has just lost his crops to a bushfire. He and his friend Agya Koo join together to educate their neighbours about the issue. Script   Mr.Kusi Agyei----Agyei----- Agyei I am dead. What will I do now? My cocoa and cassava farms are gone. Oh my God, Help me.    (There is knock at the door) Mr. Kusi (sniffling) Aboagye, go and see who has come. Aboagye Daddy, the visitor is your friend Agya Koo. Agya Koo Kusi, What is the matter? Are you sick? Mr Kusi (Takes a deep breathe) Hmmmm my farms are gone! Agya Koo (In surprise) What happened? Mr.Kusi All my farms are burnt by fire. I just don’t know what to do. Where will I get money to pay my children’s school fees? And how will I feed my family. Agya Koo How did it happen? Mr.Kusi It was yesterday. I roasted some cassava on my farm when I went to farm to work. I seems I did not put the fire out properly when I was leaving. Agya Koo (Sounding sad) This is sad indeed. I have been telling you that fire is a good servant but a bad master. If we don’t do something about the way fires are consuming our farms, the whole village will go hungry this year. I am told that some people were looking for grass cutters and they set fire to the bush around Adongo’s farm. The fire burnt the bush and all of Adongo’s crops. Mr.Kusi What will I do now? Agya Koo We will think of your problem later, but now we have to go and tell everyone in the village about how these bushfires can be prevented. The palm wine tappers, the hunters, smokers and everybody must learn to use fire carefully. Otherwise these bushfires will destroy our crops, economic trees, and expose the soil to desertification. Mr.Kusi That is a good idea Agya koo and Mr. Kusi Together we stand to prevent bushfires in the village ! Koo the Mosquito by Rebecca Owusu  Theme Mosquitoes   Message Mosquitoes can be avoided to prevent malaria.  Action Keep the environment clean to help prevent malaria.   Summarry Koo the mosquito talks to the audience about his likes and dislikes.  Script   Announcer Mosquitoes can be your worst enemy. This to what Koo Mosquito has to say. Mosquito Hi Folks! I am Koo Mosqui, alias the bloodsucker. A dirty environment with spots of stagnant water is my delight. This ensures my continuous survival and regeneration. The more the stench, the happier am I! If you care to know, I am not only the bloodsucker but I am also an infector who causes malaria in people. I am always excited when people fail to keep their environment clean. What an excitement! What happiness! Hey people! What I hate most is a clean and tidy environment. I do not get close to such places. See how kind I am? To avoid me the mosquito, keep your environment clean and tidy. To do this, desilt your gutters, dispose of all your refuse and remove spots of stagnant water. Then I will be nowhere near you. Announcer Listen to Koo the Mosquito to avoid mosquitoes and malaria ! Keep Your Environment Clean for Good Health by Stephanie Lawal  Theme Environment and Health  Message Keep the environment well for good health.  Action Dispose of waste properly  Summary Keeping a clean environment creates a healthy environment.  Script   Announcer Remember a healthy environment means a healthy people and thus a healthy nation. Dirt breeds disease. Dumping of waste indiscriminately brings harm to the environment. Statistics show that about 2800 children die every day of malaria in Africa. This is largely a result of improper waste disposal, which breeds mosquitoes. Stop harmful practices to your environment. For a healthy environment, learn to dispose waste in the refuse dump. Stop throwing waste bout. When in a moving car, keep rubbish until you are out of the car and throw it in the nearest refuse dump. Car owners are advised to keep the environment clean by providing a small refuse container in the car. Learn to keep the environment clean, for your environment is you.   Bushfires Destroy Livelihoods! by Bertha Naabil Theme Bushfires  Message Bushfires Destroy Crops and Bring Hunger  Action Prevent Bushfires  Summary Mr.Nsobila is a concerned citizen who calls on everyone to prevent bushfires. Script   Announcer Mr. Nsobila is regretting that bushfires are destroying their farmlands and creating hunger in the village. He wants everyone to know the dangers of bushfires. Listen to his message: Mr. Nsobila Bushfire is one of the causes of low agricultural production in the country. In fact, the effects of bushfires cannot be overemphasized. Firstly bushfires bring about starvation when food crops and many other agricultural products are burnt. Even students can not go to school because parents cannot get money for their fees. In the year 2001, there was a shortage of food in my village. Wulugu, due to the serious effects of bushfires. And people had to request food aid from the government. Bush fires expose the soil to erosion, destroys natural fruit trees, kill the micro-organisms in the soil which create good environ for crops to grow. Sometimes fire can burn our houses. All these are the sources of our sufferings. So palm wine tappers, hunters, cigarette smokers, farmers and all those who might set fire to the bushes must carefully examine their activities to prevent bushfires. Besides, more fire volunteers should be trained, and severe penalties should be given to anyone who deliberately sets fire to the bushes.   Preventing bushfires is the only way we can protect our environment and ensure higher food production and a safer life on earth. Ekua and Kwesi by Nana Sekyere-Boateng   Theme Clean Environment    Message Cleanliness is not just about appearances, but about keeping the environment clean.    Action Urinate in the proper places    Summarry Ekua, a young girl, encounters her brother Kwesi on his way to church. Kwesi is urinating into an open gutter, and Ekua counsels him that keeping the environment is   Script   Announcer Listen to this story of a brother and a sister. Akua was walking down the street and was surprised to see her brother Kwesi, who was dressed neatly, urinating in the gutter.   Ekua Oh Kwesi, you have surprised me. How can you do this? Kwesi Nonsense, don’t you know that I am late for church? Ekua May God save us how can you do this in the name of church? Kwesi Dirty Girl, look at your old dress, don’t you respect people in a new shirt. Announcer Mr. New Shirt, don’t you realize new things have nothing to do with cleanliness, but how one keeps the environment clean. Ekua, Please Kwesi, you have to stop urinating into drains to avoid the outbreak of disease. Kwesi Ekua, you are right. I will never do such a thing again.