In Honduras, a country in Central America, Christian Aid works with an organisation called CASM, who show people how they can protect the environment. CASM run workshops and competitions at schools across Honduras.

The town where 11-year-old Edith lives lies between two rivers that flood throughout the winter. When CASM came to her school she learned that litter blocks the rivers' overflow channels, which makes flooding worse. So Edith and her classmates designed a school recycling scheme and as a prize they got the money to set it up for real!

'We've got big black plastic bins, one for rubbish, one for cans, one for organic waste like food, one for paper and one for plastic bags.

'The teacher helped us and we planned it in our notebooks. I was very happy when we won the competition, and we got 23,000 lempira (about £700 or 900 Euros) to put it into practice. We have everything we need now.'

'Part of my job is to tell the other children not to drop litter at home or in the street.

'If you burn rubbish you're destroying nature. You can recycle a lot of things, like cans, bottles and paper.'

'We didn't use to have a garden here, but my friend Emilio suggested to our teacher that we make one, and he brought us seeds and also little trees like mango, orange and coconut.

'We collected bottles and washed them in the river, then we filled them up with earth and sand and used them to mark out the path.'