Name of Program/Project
/ The 2002 School Environmental Challenge AwardsNomination (category) / Environmental Excellence
Country / Thailand
Company Profile:
Honda has been a pioneer and leader in the Thai automotive sector since the establishment of the Asian Honda Motor Co., Ltd. in 1964. Currently, Honda's Thai operations are the largest in Asia outside of Japan, encompassing research and development, production and sales of motorcycles, automobiles, power products, parts and accessories. Altogether, the Honda Group of Companies employs more than 5,000 Thai associates and creates additional 200,000 jobs indirectly. In 2000, Honda celebrated the cumulative production of 10 million units in Thailand.
Honda's well-established manufacturing facilities and related capabilities led to the establishment of the ASEAN regional headquarters in Thailand in 1996. The Asian Honda Motor Co., Ltd. supports and oversees the strategic development and operations of all Honda operations in the region.
Nominated Program:
The 2002 School Environmental Challenge Awards project, running from January 2002 to January 2003, achieved its goals and objectives with 234 schools nationwide receiving funds for their projects from the Honda Group of Companies in Thailand. Every school completed its project under the monitoring and academic advice of local committees, comprising representatives of major organizations.
Ban Ngew Mai School, Terng District, Chiang Rai Province won His Majesty the King’s Cup for its Full Cycle Agriculture for Environmental Preservation project and has been designated as the winner of the School Environmental Challenge Awards in Thailand so as to be the model school for environmental development in the future. The Ban Ngew Mai School was selected for many reasons: its creation of 11 learning activities which allows students to think, analyze and voluntarily implement the tasks; its success in generating cooperation within the community to hand down local wisdom, for example, learning the value of the local herbs and how to grow them; learning about methods and equipment for catching shrimps and eels, and the life cycle and ecology of local insects, e.g. Gwang. In addition, various learning bases such as the ecology of field crabs will help solve the problem of using chemical substances to eliminate the crabs in rice fields.