World Cleanup day was a success!

Last Saturday the 17th we saw the AISM and US Embassy community join the rest of the Maputo community in various cleanup efforts all over town and the marginal. We had great turnout in our group; students, parents, teachers, staff, children and even grandparents joined us at 9 am at the Miramar beach. Our group did an awesome job as we did our part in being stewards in our environment and demonstrating the values that we pride ourselves in. 

At the end of the cleanup some of us had some lovely coconut juice as a reward!

The municipality came around quite quickly so we barely got to take photos of all the bags we gathered, but here are some images from the day.

 

                                                    

Mozambeach Cleanup was a success!

 

This past Sunday a group of AISM students organised a beach cleanup named Mozambeach Cleanup. (LOVE the name!)

This initiative was organised by 3 students, however some grade 12's joined in as part of their CAS projects.

We met at the parking lot next to the Fish market at 9h. The students gave us gloves and bags and off we went.

It was a lovely day to go out and bask in the sun as we picked up the trash. The stretch of beach we were on next to the Fish market, isn't big at all but unfortunately it was littered enough to keep all 10 of us pretty busy for the hour and a half we were there.

Most littered items? Beer bottles, broken bottles, plastic bottle caps, masks, nappies and oddly enough, pieces of clothing, loads of them!

All in all, we didn't clean the whole beach of course but some trash was removed from the environment, which already makes a huge difference. I also believe it's important that people see the beaches being cleaned up by students, they were being an example and that makes me very proud of the AISM learners! Well done!

                                    

                                                

World Cleanup day is celebrated on 17 September this year. The Sustainability Committee will be organising cleanups too so please keep an eye for those.

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