What is an SLA?

What is an SLA?

So do you all know what the SLA's are? Well first of all, SLA stands for Sustainable Living Ambassador. SLAs engage the student population on various efforts, such as competitions, awareness campaigns and other educational programs. According to Christopher Silva, QF's Sustainability Education Coordinator "The Sustainable Living Ambassadors will educate students on several resource efficiency initiatives such water and electricity conservation, waste reduction and other important issues He went on to say that these students would be tracking the usage of water and electricity within the dorms. The SLAs are in charge of promoting environment sustainability around the resident halls and "will be encouraging students to start making environmentally friendly choices," says Sabrina Alam, a community development advisor. Changes such as plastic and paper recycling, old clothes donations, and teaching residents how to manage their resources, will be the key aims. The SLAs will work on finding out what the residents' want and how they can get those residents more involved in the program. This is one of Education City's initiatives in creating eco-friendly residence halls. "It is a good way to make it interactive, practical and it is an efficient method that yields productive results" says Ismaeel Naar, a community development advisor. So far, this year’s SLAs are Haider Zali from CMU and Farzana Hoque from VCU. If you are interested in becoming an SLA please contact Chris Silva at csilva@qf.org.qa!

Shannon Farhoud