Theme: Let's Do It World
Celebrating the Earth
As climate change champions and advocates gathered around the world on September 16th to commemorate world cleanup day 2023, so did Wfac’s climate justice campaigners mobilize within their communities to ignite awareness on waste segregation and galvanize meaningful actions against flooding on the inaugural luncheon of the Flood Free Neighborhood Campaign where many adolescents and young people joined their peers to cleanup their communities by picking up plastic bottles and segregating waste along the coastline and water drainages in their neighborhoods.
More than one metric ton of domestic waste was segregated across the two regions. The cleaning and picking up of plastic bottles, nylons and dirt blocking drainage passages and along river banks within their communities will bring about a free flow of water through the drainage channels and reduce the levels of standing waters and probable floods and water overflow into houses during rainfalls, destroying houses and other livelihoods and the ecosystem.
These actions and meaningful participation seeks to enhance communities awareness on the need to improve on sustainable waste management practices as a means towards advancing climate action.
This luncheon campaign to commemorate world cleanup day was met with a lot of appreciation from their communities as they found this activity engaging and transformative; worthy of appreciation and encouragement.
