The Clean Up Barbados event will take place September, 18, 2010. Many of our open spaces, beaches, gullies and roadways need attention. Clean Up Barbados is linked by the membership to the Clean Up The World weekend, held the third weekend of September every year. The event gives groups and individuals the chance to get out and get involved with cleaning an area that needs attention and that the community shares a passion in maintaining. www.cleanupbarbados.org Continue reading
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(posted September 19, 2009, 3:25pm Bridgetown)
Kammie Holder*, one of the organisers of the Clean Up Barbados initiative happening today, Saturday September 19, 2009, has been offered a challenge that will see him BDS$300 richer or poorer.
If fewer than 3 politicians come out and get their hands dirty actually helping out today, Kammie is out $300. If 3 or more politicians come out and actually work, Kammie makes $300 on a bet.
We’ve heard that Mrs. Prime Minister will be out working, but I’m not sure if she counts as a politician.
So what do you think folks? Will more than 3 politicians come out and actually get their hands dirty? I think someone should tell Denis Lowe that standing around for photo-ops doesn’t count!
See our original story: ‘Clean Up Barbados’ needs more volunteers – BFP’s Auntie Moses will be there. How about you?
* While we believe Kammie Holder is the one who contacted us, we did not meet, nor does Kammie know our faces or our names.
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500 Volunteers registered so far
The inaugural Clean Up Barbados event is on for Saturday, September 19th but needs many more people to participate because, frankly, the place is in bad shape. This littering and garbage dumping business is not only impacting our international reputation as a desirable place for a vacation, it’s costing us money and trouble every time we have a big rain. Much of the flooding is directly caused by garbage plugging the catchments and runoff areas. Two of us at BFP have been hit hard by water damage in the last little while and there was no reason for our loss except the garbage that blocked the runoff up the end of the road.
So we’ll be out on Saturday with Auntie Moses and the little ones.
How about you?
Here’s the media release with the details…
Preparations well under way for Clean Up Barbados
After inspection of some of the twenty two sites registered for Clean Up Barbados Day taking place on Saturday September 19, Ms Nicole Garofano, Administrator of The Future Centre, is confident the event will be a success.
The event, which plans to become an annual contribution to the Barbadian environmental calendar, aims to highlight the many impacts of waste to our communities and their environs. Not only does the haphazard disposal of waste look unsightly, it of course creates health hazards through the harbouring of vectors. In addition, this waste contributes to the blockage of drains and gully areas, and also prevents clean filtration of rainwater as some examples of the impacts of unmanaged waste.
In the planning of the inaugural Clean Up Barbados event, Ms Garofano carried out several site inspections this past weekend to gather some pre clean up photo and video footage. “The sites we have registered so far cover each coastline of the island. We also have two sites registered inland, focused on gully clean ups. The sites inspected in preparation for the event, vary in their visible waste. The East Coast sites are probably the worst areas and will require the most attention” Ms Garofano stated.
She added, “The gully areas identified have had a history of illegal dumping, so these will also require some good manpower. In the case of Blackman’s Gully, Island Safari, Adventureland Tours and Innotech Services Limited, have taken their clean up one step further to make available heavy machinery.”
The event has so far brought together some five hundred persons via the registration of some twenty seven groups. Some of the areas included will be working alongside the Caribbean Youth Environment Network as local implementing agency for the International Coastal Clean Up Day, also taking place on September 19, in addition to the Environmental Protection Department. These two organisations will be working to add to their extensive database of information relating to marine debris, which is studied each year on this weekend.
Contributors to Clean Up Barbados include Starcom Network, SBI Distribution (who have also registered a group), Realtors, B’ Recycling, First Caribbean International Bank, Realtors, and Virgo Communications who have created the branded website www.cleanupbarbados.org.
The Future Centre is proud to be undertaking this initiative as it strives to continue to raise the profile of environmental awareness. “Educating the public, primarily young people, is our key focus, with this event a great example of this mission”, Ms Garofano offered. She added that “during these next few months and leading into the next three year phase, we look forward to a greater place in the community to build this awareness and attempt to reconnect with the earth and its resources to our daily living in an attempt to live more sustainably”.
Clean Up Barbados forms part of Clean Up the World, a year-round community-led environmental campaign that takes place in local communities involving an estimated 35 million volunteers from 120 countries each year. Clean Up the World is a campaign held in conjunction with Primary Partner UNEP. Sponsors – Brambles and Qantas. Supporters – The Australian Government through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Armor and Marriott International Inc.
For further information or to register a group for Clean Up Barbados contact The Future Centre on 425 2020 or by email at futurecentre@sunbeach.net or visit our newly developed website www.cleanupbarbados.org. You can also find us through the Clean Up the World link at activities.cleanuptheworld.org.
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