YANGJU, Korea (CNS) -- Elementary school students learned about preserving the environment and protecting nature during recent Catholic-run "eco-camps." Augustine Maeng Joo-hyung, an official with the Environmental Pastoral Committee of the Seoul Archdiocese, told the Asian church news agency UCA News July 29 that the goal of the camps was for the children to experience an eco-friendly lifestyle away from urban areas. The campers, ages 9-12, stayed in wooden cabins without air conditioning and worked on the retreat center's farm, planting and harvesting peppers and lettuce. They also went for forest walks and dyed white T-shirts using yellow soil and turmeric as natural pigments. The Environmental Pastoral Committee and Hanmaum (one heart) Retreat Center of the neighboring Diocese of Uijeongbu organized the two similar camps July 28-30 and July 30-Aug. 1. About 200 elementary school students from the Seoul Archdiocese and the dioceses of Incheon, Suwon and Uijeongbu attended the camps.
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