The Gidi Culture Festival team and volunteers
participated in the first ever ‘Beach Sweep’ by clearing out litter and debris
at Elegushi beach in Lagos. The event took place on the last Saturday of the
month, highlighting the importance of the environmental sanitation.
The beach sweep is part of the ‘Rep your
community’ drive by Gidi Culture festival to encourage youth participation in
local communities and community projects. The Beach sweep encourages visitors
to keep the beach and communities clean during the Christmas and festive
periods. Gidi Culture is engaging its network to help support the beach and its
local residents.
Volunteers cleaned out the beach and surrounding
areas of the popular beach, which attracts over 3,000 visitors on the weekends
alone. They removed bottles, debris from the waterways and litter from the rock
bay.
Litter is a severe problem across beaches in
Lagos with a growing need to stop this problem by educating visitors of the
beach and the local community. Marine and shoreline litter can come from
anywhere, some blown in by wind or travel by river streams and storm drains.
It is important to clean the beach and the
shoreline to protect the local community as well as the wildlife that call
those areas home.
“Elegushi beach is an integral part of our local
community and organising the sweep is one way of encouraging visitors and local
residents to take ownership of the beach and keep the beach superior and clean
during visits” said Okeke.
Okeke, continued “We hope to make this a
quarterly event, which we would like to roll out to other beaches across
Nigeria. We have found that this sort of event encourages a sense of community
and encourages local residents in giving back to their local community".
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