Shera donates rain gauges to Seychelles Meteorological Authority |10 June 2022

The handover of the donation

In celebration of World Environment Day on June 5, Shera provided the Seychelles Meteorological Authority with a donation of rain gauges.

The rain gauges will go towards the meteo club’s school programme that the Seychelles Meteorological Authority has been rolling out across secondary schools since September 2021. Currently the programme has been launched in three secondary schools ‒ Mont Fleuri, Anse Boileau and La Digue.

Shera aims to help promote awareness on climate change, and making more sustainable choices so people can live in harmony with nature.

This donation also aims to promote schools to join the meteorological office’s meteo club programme, and help with materials required for the meteo club.

The Seychelles Islands are under a growing threat from the effects of climate change. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Climate Change and Environment, the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report concluded that humans are the direct source of global warming leading to melting ice caps, and rise in the temperature of the oceans. Small island developing states (Sids) are especially vulnerable to climate change and Seychelles is no exception as it is economically, culturally, and environmentally impacted. The rising temperature of the earth increases coastal inundation, erosion, and bleaching of coral reefs also affecting the fishing industry.

Shera offers consumers fiber cement products that substitute for wood in a variety of applications that can be used for roofing, ceilings, walls, flooring, and decorative wood applications. Shera is fabricated from 30% recyclable materials including fibers obtained from fast growing trees specially planted for industrial use. One of Shera’s aims is to minimise its environmental impact at each lifecycle stage of its product; this being from its manufacture, to when it is constructed on-site, its fabrication during construction, and its use in the home.

“We hope you can join us on this day as we would love to assist the meteorological office with providing them with not only materials but spreading awareness on the meteorological club school programme to help get other schools onboard. We are happy to inform that teachers and students are making very good use of the facility in their geography and science lessons. This new addition we are hoping will further enhance the teaching and learning of certain topics in those afore-mentioned subjects and in others as well. The weather station now forms an integral part of our school’s meteo club which aims at giving learners the opportunity to gain more knowledge and experience in the collection and recording data. We hope they will be encouraged to pursue science related careers,” said Jina Labiche, head teacher of Anse Boileau secondary.

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