The Young, Clean and Green programme started in 2010. It is spearheaded by a German NGO called Aldebaran and targets high schoolers for involvement in environmentally pro-active initiatives. They launched their third campaign today at Steffi Lupp's residence on Princess Margaret Drive and she told me what it's about:..
Stefanie Lupp, Managing Director - Aldebaran
"For me it's more to educate the youths. Belize need this and we started visiting up campaign... all districts. And two years ago we started visiting young, clean and green campaign, all high schools in Belize. And this is our second campaign. The first young, clean and green campaign was amazing, it was so successful. And this year 20 schools already decided to be a partner."
Deborah Sewell, Managing Director - Love Foundation
"So we work with 200 children in the south side. that's an area where there's a lot of pollution, there's a lot of waste and a lot of the children really don't, have never had an opportunity to think about what that means to the environment. And so one of the main focus is we are looking at is plastic is the real sea monster. So we know some of our communities is in the Yabra area, so it's just so easy for us to work with the kids and in reference to looking at what pollution does to the sea."
Stefanie Lupp, Managing Director - Aldebaran
"Then what's really important for all of us is the gardening and composting. Everybody has resources to produce their own foods, their own vegetables and we want to teach the children gardening and composting. To the young people in Belize, please take a little bit more care, keep Belize clean. It's not only for the environment. Belize is a touristic country. People from outside come to Belize from environmental countries and then they come to Belize and see garbage everywhere. This is not very good for the face of Belize."
The program involves more than 2 dozen high schools and each of them is tasked to produce a 2 minute Public Service Announcement.
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