World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought (WDCD) in Teken Quarter, Mile 4 Nkwen - Bamenda, Cameroon

Today we commemorated WDCD in our community with over 21 young people in attendance.

Before the cleaning
This piece of land was given to us by a member of the community for us to use it for our Plastic Bottles Recycling and One Million Trees Project.
Today, we leveled and cleaned the land as well as shared knowledge about Desertification and Drought, how they affect us and what we can do to mitigate them.

This is how the space looked after we cleaned it.

After the cleaning

We started working at 01:00PM with our volunteers and for over 3 hours, we accomplished our goal which was to clean the site and level it.

Working Tools

While we cleaned, we had dispatched some of our volunteers to go for a plastic bottles drive and we were amazed with the quantity of plastic bottles we gathered from our community.

The plastic bottles drive was followed by the eating of sugar-cane to replenish the energy and an educative talk on Desertification and drought by @mr-greens

This was followed by the taking of a family photo, general discussions and departure.

The video of the event is more detailed and we will publish it tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

Today marked the launching of our Plastic Bottle Recycling and One Million Trees Project that strives to upcycle 500,000 Plastic Bottles into One Million UPB Tree Nursery Pots to nurse and grow one million trees (fruit trees, agroforestry trees, medicinal trees, ornamental trees) which will be planted in the Bamenda Highlands of the North West Region of Cameroon in order to promote food and fruit security, alleviate poverty and youth unemployment, STOP Plastic Bottle Pollution and fight climate change.
More details about this project will be published on the 20th of June 2019.

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The Greens is a grassroots environmental organization that strives to educate, inspire and engage young people to take action to combat climate change and be at the forefront of biodiversity conservation and waste management.

Founded in 2010, @thegreens have been able to use arts, sports, media and ICT to educate and engage more than 10,000 young people in Green Poetry, Green Music, Green Arts, Green Radio, and Conservation Champions League.

Her tree planting programs have seen the organization create 04 Community Tree Nurseries, planted more than 300,000 trees and together with @kedjom-keku we have acquired 1000 hectares of afromontane forest in Kedjom-Keku Village of the Bamenda Highlands of the North West Region of Cameroon for the creation and conservation of Kedjom-Keku Community Forest

@thegreens is currently engaged in Waste Management (Waste Business Hub); Plastic Waste Upcycling, Tire Upcycling and Textile Waste Recycling via @ecodesigns.
Her #EndPlasticPollution Campaign has seen the organization sensitize more than 100,000 people about plastic pollution, upcycled more than 10,000 plastic bottles to create UPB Vertical Gardens, UPB Tree Nursery Pots, etc.

Her Textile Recycling Project (@ecodesigns) is currently training 13 young girls for free in textile recycling and fashion designing and has recycled more than 5000 pounds of textile waste.

Her Tire Upcycling Project is educating and engaging young people in schools and communities to #StopBurningTires and upcycle them to create Mushroom Tire Seats, Tire Flower Pots, etc

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