On December 9, with my classmates Carla Dinckel and Melissa Savineau, we were asked by our teachers to stay at the highschool the afternoon to meet a representative of the UN.

We were chosen because, last year, we were in PMS, wich is a scientific option. With it, we were involved in a project about biodiversity in cities. We worked with the National Museum of Natural History, and that is why we had the chance to meet Dessima Williams.

With our headmaster, Mrs Benkovski, and the teachers of the MPS option, we met Dessima Williams and her collaborator.

Mrs Williams was Grenade’s ambassador at the UN, and nowadays she is a special adviser, working on the implementation of the sustainable development goals.

We all talked a lot with her about biodiversity and how to save our planet ; it is very important to her because she comes from Grenade’s islands and if global warming continues to increase like that, her island is going to be submerged because of the rise in the sea level, caused by the phenomenon of melting ice.

She explained to us that the UN works according to seventeen goals, and she is working on the goals in relation to sustainable development ; one of those goals is called « quality education ». Another is called « partnerships for the goals ». That’s why she came to our highschool : to see how sustainable development is taught. I quoted the goal about partnerships because we have been working, for two years now, with partners from all around Europe about sustainable development, global warming, food problems, etc. We are working with Lithuania, Poland and Italy on this Erasmus + project.

It was a great opportunity to meet Dessima Williams, and we had a really good time. Leaving this interview, we all (my classmates and I) felt responsible and adult ; I’ll never throw my cigarette butts on the floor again, or anything else, because I want to save this planet.

We wanted to thank all our teachers for those great opportunities which they offer us.