Living Earth Uganda (LEU), recently facilitated a cleanup exercise and awareness-raising campaign in Kasubi market, on the 18th August and Nansana Town on 26th August. Staff from Living Earth Uganda engaged with community members in the Lubaga Division and Nansana Town Council, drawing attention to both community’s right to a clean and healthy environment, whilst emphasising individual roles and responsibilities in preserving and protecting their environment. The events were based on the mission statement that “Responsible Citizens participate in cleaning and keeping their environment clean, you too have a right to a clean and healthy environment.”
These initatives followed previous Civic Education Workshops facilitated by LEU staff, whereby local leaders from project areas had engaged in the creation of work plans relating to sanitation enhancement activities they wished to implement in their communities. Attendees included Living Earth Uganda, Government Officials, individual entrepreneurs through to local leaders and community members.
The cleanup exercise and awareness- raising campaign encompassed a diversity of activities from sweeping, cleaning trenches within and around the market areas, weeding through to collecting and loading rubbish on to awaiting rubbish trucks.
Through the staging of a drama presentation, the importance of creating wealth out of waste through production of charcoal briquette as an alternative fuel source to firewood and charcoal, was further outlined to the communities.
As guests of honour at both events, the Mayors of Lubaga and Nansana pledged their full support to Living Earth Uganda; urging the need to ensure environmental protection and conservation through policy implementation relating to efficient waste management practices in the communities.
LEU staff focused on the positive impact of creating wealth out of waste through charcoal briquette making; outlining the environmental benefit as an alternative fuel source, due to the reduction in the depletion of trees through obtaining biodegradable waste, and the cost effective benefits compared to these fuel sources.
LEU staff also reiterated that waste plastics, when collected and sold to the recycling industry, is a source of additional income for communities.
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