CEI 2018
What is CEI?
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
The Caretakers of the Environment International (CEI) is an independent organization established in 1986, embracing secondary school students, teachers and mentors, whose interests are focused specifically on the issues of environmental protection, promoting education, shaping awareness and training within sustainable development.
We come from nearly 50 countries from the furthest corners of the world. Some countries have established National Branches of CEI. See CEI's Mission and Statutes for more information.
The Mission
​
What does it take to enable students to see the planet as one interdependent environment?
Caretakers of the Environment (CEI) believes this can best occur through having students meet and work together.
CEI tries to establish a worldwide network of secondary school teachers and students who are actively concerned about environmental issues and who are willing to do something about these issues through their education and their action-taking. In order to spread the CEI idea, the CEI board organizes annual international conferences, founds national CEI branches and organizes national and regional workshops all over the world.
The network intends to be a podium for teachers and students to exchange concerns, ideas, strategies, actions and projects in the field of environmental education.
​
CEI's Goals
-
To develop a worldwide network of secondary school students and teachers who share environmental concerns and who face environmental challenges.
-
To share successful and innovative environmental education programs.
-
To facilitate joint educational projects that encourage international data exchange and interdisciplinary activities.
-
To develop strategies which enable delegates to act as ambassadors for CEI in their own country.
-
To promote environmental awareness and to develop national EE-networks.
-
To encourage the building of trust, friendship and cooperation among people of different cultural background.
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
Caretakers Song
​
Caretakers
We are the caretakers
Come and sing with us
We are the caretakers
We can’t run
We only got one earth
We got one chance
To make it better
And we all swim across the sea
The sea of hope
The sea of freedom
Caretakers
We are the caretakers
Come and sing with us
We are the caretakers
Everyday
Men as you and me
Why can’t they sing?
We are responsible!
And take my hand
Let’s sense Mother Earth
Watching this to keep on living
Caretakers
We are the caretakers
Come and sing with us
We are the
caretakers
And we all swim across the sea
The sea of hope
The sea of freedom
Caretakers
We are the caretakers
Come and sing with us
We are the caretakers
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​