On October 17th, Yayasan Lamjabat (YL), KUALA (Koalisi untuk advokasi laut Aceh) & IKAPALA (coordination network for MAPALA environment youth/student groups) have joined forces to support an International Coastal Cleanup. This was a local volunteer initiative for beach clean up and compiling data on the trash collected at 4 popular beach recreation areas in Aceh Besar. Despite the rain, the initiative was successful. Some pictures are available here.
The idea of this initiative, which was supported by Terre des hommes Italia within the framework of UNDPs Tsunami Waste Management Livelihoods Activities-Round III, came from Yayasan Lamjabat (YL) and KUALA (Koalisi untuk advokasi laut Aceh) as both organisations focus on coastal environment issues and action to increase awareness of the importance of healthy marine eco-systems and the condition of the coastal areas of Aceh today. Also YL has been working on waste management issues at the community level for some years now and doing local beach clean ups.
Data collected will be send to Ocean Conservancy who will compile a worldwide report for all data collected by the volunteer teams during the 2 months of September and October 2010.
Contact&Info: northlinda@gmail.com (Yayasan Lamjabat)
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