Tuesday, December 15, 2009

My experience of Clean Up UAE Campaign



Thousands of UAE nationals and expats from all background and cultures gathered for Clean Up UAE event on Saturday morning. The campaign was held in all 7 emirates at around 70 sites. Everybody was wearing Clean Up UAE logo T-shirt and cap. we gathered near the clean-up site. After a worm welcome by scouts and guides we started with our work in groups. All necessary gears like hand gloves and garbage bag was provided. The site selection was good for the campaign as there was lot of garbage in the sand :). Specially glass, bottle caps, teens, plastic was included in garbage. the slight drizzle also took part in the campaign to clean up UAE!

For an NGO it is really hard to provide gears, food and drinks to thousands of participants and mainly to get such no. of volunteers to take part in clean up campaign. But EEG organised and managed it well.


On my part I worked hard and collected about 4kg of garbage containing glass, metal and plastic all non-decomposable waste. I personally felt if some instructions about classification of waste and which is important to collect to clean the site was necessary. Because some people were not clearing glass but wooden sticks which should be vice-versa. Also the garbage bags given to each one of us was plastic bag, instead better if it would have been paper bag!


But at the end of day everybody present there came with good intention of cleaning up and the campaign was real success. I am happy I was part of this campaign!


Wednesday, December 9, 2009

I signed the petition to Seal the Deal!


The UN-lead Seal The Deal campaign aims to galvanize political will and public support for reaching a comprehensive global climate agreement in Copenhagan in December 2009.

Clean Up UAE Campaign 2009!


Emirates Environmental Group, EEG started Clean Up UAE campaign in 2002. Thousands of UAE residents volunteer for this campaign. They clean up a specific area to show their concern to protect and clean environment.
It inspires people to be more responsible about their own actions, habits and practices.
In first year 4,500 volunteers participated in the campaign. Last year the no. was 23,000, the residents from all 7 emirates. People from all sectors students, individuals and organisations volunteer for the evnt.This year around 25,000 volunteers are expected to join hands to clean up UAE on Dec 12th. I am happy that I will be one of them!
Let's Clean Up UAE!