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| The first group of students who took part in the initiative pose in a group photo together with officials of QP and Bunduq Company Limited |
Hana-IKU, which means “flower cultivation” in Japanese, is an environmental educational programme that gives schoolchildren the opportunity to appreciate nature’s beauty and to care for the environment as they plant flowering plants.
A total of 130 year-four students from MIS participated in the hands-on activity, which was held at the school’s primary campus recently.
During the event, Japanese instructors demonstrated to the students how to create their own container garden and the students were each given a pot and then planted a variety of flowering plants namely petunia, vinca and tulips.
During the programme, the students were instructed to water their container garden daily and to take good care of their plants for them to grow properly.
They were also taught the value of recycling after being informed that an empty water bottle, when cut in half diagonally, could then be used as a shovel and that the same water bottle could also be used as water sprinkler when holes are made in its cap.
The launching ceremony of the programme was attended by senior QP officials including Exploration and PSA Oil Development manager Khalid Said Ali al-Rumaihi, Qatarisation Committee expert and chairman Abubakr Amer Sobaih Awadh al-Saiari, Personnel Administration head Yousuf Mohamed Ahmad Hamad Buhindi and Kevin John Massey MIS headmaster.
Also present at the event were Bunduq Company chairman and United Petroleum Development Company Limited (UPD) of Japan managing director Kuniharu Akamatsu, UPD’s Planning and Marketing department cum technical department general manager Kimiya Nakamura, Bunduq Company assistant general manager Ahmed Y Al Abdul Jabbar, administration manager Hyatt al-Shihri and Bunduq’s Doha Office representative Hiroshi Ishii.
The Bunduq Company has chosen the Hana-IKU Kids Programme as part of their sustainability initiatives because it connects the youth to their surrounding environment and it also highlights the important role that all children can play in protecting the environment.
Based in Abu Dhabi and with an office in Doha, Bunduq Company is the operator of the Bunduq field, which lies on the offshore border of Emirates and Qatar.
Commercial production from the field started in 1975, and the crude oil output is shared equally between the two countries.