This was one unusual yet very fulfilling weekend. A Coastal Cleanup Drive was pulled off successfully with a huge number of volunteers and Earth warriors from our school's Senior High students, teachers and Alumni, Barangay Personnel, DRR Team, Lunhaw Organization, and Philippine Air Force CMO unit, on the day of our school's official launching of the CCAP or Climate Change Adaptation Programs last week, April 23, 2022. CCAP, initiated by our school's DRR team aims to birth activities for Climate Change Awareness and Mitigation that are to be done monthly.
And for the first month of its launching, we had the "Cause for our Coast" cleanup activity with 157 volunteers from different groups I mentioned above.
The activity started early at 6:00 in the morning with a short program where the orientation and discussion of the do's and dont's during the cleanup happened. There were also invited Barangay personnel who enthusiastically shared their way of turning plastic trashes into something very useful.
Right after the short program, we walked our way to the target coastal area which was just a walking distance from our school. There at the exact venue there were few reminders made before actually getting into the coastal cleaning.
We were grouped by three, and each group should fill a 50-kilo-sack. At around 7:30 we started picking up the trashes, filling our sacks, and cleaning the coast. After filling the sacks, we handed them over to the assigned person for weighing. It was just about an hour and 30 minutes of cleaning, yet we were able to collect 94 sacks of plastics and trashes that summed up to a thousand kilos, One Thousand and Seventy-six Kilograms to be exact. Imagine how many plastics were that, polluting the coast? But, it was not just that all, we stopped as we ran out of sacks and trash bins.
It was just a quick activity but was a huge success with 157 participants, 94 sacks used, and 1,076 Kilograms of plastics collected. How much more if there will be more of those who are willing to initiate or even join the same activities for saving the Mother Earth.
And so for the next month, the school's planning to conduct mangrove planting to the same area as the second "Cause for Our Coast" activity of the CCAP.
It is said that we only have 3-5 years to save our planet Earth. So let's act now and start doing our share.
It was indeed a very fullfilling and fruitful Saturday. Well, that's all for now! See you in the next one! Keep safe everyone!