Dear schools,

we would like to know exactly where and when The Drops Of Life has been performed.
If you have performed it (since 2007) please fill in the form here.

The Drops of Life will be widely performed by schools on the next tree planting day, 22nd of May. It has been translated into many languages. The latest translation will be in Arabic!

Students at Al-Dasma Inter. School for Girls in Kuwait city will have their premier on 21st of May 2009. Their teacher is Shirin Meysar Al-Khass who suggested this translation.

Students from Pataluoto Schools and teacher Mika Vanhanen organised a workshop in the International Children's conference on the Environment (TUNZA 2008) in Stavanger Norway .

Class 6D from Collège Raoul Rebout, Montlouis France will perform our play in Children's Theatre Festival in Marano, Italy. They have made a blog where you can see more info.

A group of 5th and 6th graders from a Finnish Pataluoto School will perform the play in the Tunza International Children's Conference on Environment 2008. This event will be held 16-21 June in Stavanger, Norway. The manuscripts in different languages will be handed out to children delegates from other countries. About 1 000 kids from 106 countries will take part!

Collège Raoul Rebout in Montlouis are at the moment working on The Drops Of Life. School is in the process of studying the play and have worked, with the French and maths teacher of a year 7class (24 children, 11-12 years old). They are planning to plant a tree at school and also in the village where they live. The kids are very motivated. They started with the study of a book from Jean Giono called "Lhomme qui plantait les arbres" and are planning on making a blog about their work. Their premiere will take place at the beginning of May. The decor will be done by the children with the art teacher and the songs studied with the music teacher.

Bernadette Fenton, English teacher

ENO is a winner of The Global Junior Challenge Awards 2007

ENO-Environment Online was one of the winners in the Global Junior Challenge Awards. Out of 600 projects from 80 countries, an international jury selected 100 as a finalists. These projects were presented in the Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale Galileo Galilei. The winners were announced during the award ceremony that took place in the beautiful Giulio Cesar Room in the Campidoglio City Hall. They were also invited to meet the President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano in the Quirinale Palace.

The Global Junior Challenge is a global award promoted by the Digital World Foundation, a non-profit organization founded by the Municipality of Rome and six major ICT companies. The intention of the award, dedicated to young people and to schools, is to identify and reward best practices on the use of new technologies in education and training of youngsters.

Enjoy the blog about our tree planting play The Drops Of Life. Taipei Municipal Lishan High School's blog records many learning activities regarding our play.
See this blog here: http://952lspbl.wordpress.com/

Here is a link to all of the photos and images concerning The Drops Of Life,
see here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/enoprogramme/TheDropsOfLife

You are welcome to play The Drops Of Life with us again!
This time we will do in during ENO Tree Planting Day, 21st of September 2007. You can also join our tree planting day and plant trees with us!

Hi Mika,

It was a wonderful day for every participants who came to Lumbini Theatre in Colombo.
I congratulate for you and author Esko-Pekka. It is very familiar for our culture.
Songs were very close to our hearts.

On 5th over 800 teachers, adults and visitors gathered with children.Over 15 leading schools in Colombo principals,teachers and students came to see the drama. chief guest was Mrs. Anusha Gokula. Asst; secretary of Cultural Ministry.. Finnish consul didn't come or didn't reply for our invitation. But it was a great window to introduce about Finland. Our children have a few knowledge about Finland. On 5th they understood more about your motherland. Special lecturer were delivwred by Dr. Galabada Arachchi,a famous scientist in Sri lanka.Mr. Amarajeewa the principal of Lumbini College, Mr. Chandrasiri, Environment commissioner for Colombo District were among the invitees.Mr. Cooray now most famous comedy king,visited here delighted the function.

Following famous voluntary served to success Drops of Life.
Make up artist; Gamini Costa- chief makeup artist, Swarnavahini Television,
Sunil Sri and P, Gamage helped more .First we staged Sinhala drama and next staged English one. Media has given a good publicity. "Vidula" is a special State Radio channel for children. Today morning attended a live broadcast about Drops of life.

“The Drops of Life” was performed in Lithuania Kaunas Vydunas Secondary School by pupils from class 5. We all were very happy to feel a part of this big event. It is such a good feeling to try to make our world a better and nicer place to live for everyone.

Here are the links where you can see some pieces from the play.
http://www.rasma.lt/video/index.php?id=1
http://www.rasma.lt/video/index.php?id=2

Thank you for this wonderful opportunity!

Best regards.

Rasma Stuokiene