With our commitment to empower children to grow up close to nature in order to become environmentally-friendly and inculcate in them the 3RS (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle)we use our Garbage Bank Initiative in first and second cycle institutions to introduce creativity and good design values to increase student’s awareness on their environment.  Students bring recyclables from home every morning for a total of ten cubic meters/day. Students receive points in exchange of the recyclables they bring to the bank. Those points can then be traded for money to enable students earn some income whiles making effective contribution to environmental protection or barter in exchange of some of our educational products like school bag, files etc made from the recyclables.  The project also teaches students recycling and empowers them to make handicrafts from the recyclables using the recyclables brought to the garbage bank by the students themselves. The ultimate goal is to teach the students the positive effect of upcycling. The concept of upcycling is taught to the students as the first step of the program, and use their knowledge gained to demonstrate their creativity. These recyclables provide the students with the opportunity to interact with each recyclables hands on, and while the students attempt to discover different ways to put the parts together to make something new, their ability for creative thinking is enhanced.