Let's save the earth with us!
Author: Adren S. Nenobesi Celebrating Earth Day with an Environmental Action In the 27th of April, team Timor Eco Warriors joined a beach clean-up action together with MITRA Community and many other youth communities in Kupang. The action took place in Namosain Beach, about 6 kms from the central city of Kupang. This area is one of the most favorite places in Kupang to spend afternoon while watching the sunset. It is also very easy to access, located on the side of a road, makes it a perfect place to take a rest after jogging, or just to hang out with friends. However tough more and more trash appeared to be scattered along the beach breaking the beautiful view of the sunset. More ironically many people use this area to fish and sell their catch right on the shore. This situation triggered young people in Kupang to take action together, as a respond for the Earth Day on the 22th of April. Those young people who came from different youth communities joined together to take action for the environment. Sonia, one of the volunteer from Timor Eco Warriors said that This was a very impactful action to take, considering the great number of cases of overloading plastic trash in many areas especially in the coasts around Kupang. She hopes that trough this action they can somehow make the local people aware to not to throw trash into the ocean. She was also very glad that as a youth she could contribute to do a useful thing to the environment. There was also a very good message given from Elvy and Yuni, other volunteers who joined the action. After seeing the amount of plastic trash in the area they said, people should know that one plastic bag that they throw today will not be gone until more than 20 years in the future, they shouldn’t give trash as their legacy for younger generation. Instead a will to save the environment and positive education to the kids are much more promising for better future. The action took place from 15.00 pm until 17.00 pm made a significant difference to the beach. The beach that looked so dirty and full of plastic trash become much more cleaner and more appealing to the eyes. This activity was also makes the team members very happy because trough this activity, they could get know many new people and collaborate with them. They hope that there will be similar activities like this in the future”. So eco warriors, let’s take action to save the planet! Author: Adren S. Nenobesi
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