A nationwide sustainability initiative known as Action Planet today launches a campaign on the Maltese crowdfunding platform ZAAR to support a student-led exhibition.

Action Planet, which unites more than 40 local organisations, NGOs and government ministries, aims to find solutions to sustainability issues and encourage people to consider how their daily lifestyle choices are impacting Malta and the world.

The Action Planet exhibition is student-led, bringing together students from schools, Mcast, the University of Malta, the Malta Women’s Sound Network and Inspire, who have created art and sound installations, apps, media installations, photographs and artworks to help raise environmental awareness and inspire change.

“By improving sustainability in Malta, all our lives will be positively impacted, so the Action Planet project encourages people to make simple yet profound changes that will greatly improve our environment, health and wellbeing,” says Action Planet Project founder Fiona Hornstein.

To raise the €5,000 required to support the exhibition, Hornstein followed a friend’s recommendation to crowdfund on ZAAR, which, like Action Planet, is also a local initiative focused on Malta, and offers personal support, media assistance and promotion to the business market through CORE and the Chamber of Commerce.

Forming part of the Spazju Kreattiv season programme, the exhibition is endorsed by the Valletta 2018 Foundation and is supported by the Ministry of Education and Employment, and the Energy and Water Agency.

To complement the exhibition, Wasteserv, Esplora, Kopin and SOS Malta will also be leading school workshops and speaker events open to the public.

Family workshops and speaker events will be supported by the University of Malta, Birdlife Malta, the Malta National Aquarium, Global Green Events and others.

For more information about the crowdfunding campaign, visit www.zaar.com.mt.