Monday 20 January 2014

The Gidi Culture Festival participates in post Christmas clean up at Elegushi Beach




Poised not only to entertain the youth through the universal language of music, fun and games,
Gidi Culture Festival (GCF) also seeks to keep Nigerian environment clean.
GCF recently highlighted the importance of the environmental sanitation as its team and volunteers participated in the first ever ‘Beach Sweep’ by clearing out litter and debris at Elegushi beach in Lagos.
Information made available to Daily Newswatch by media and press person of the organisation, Ronke Bamisedun, revealed that the beach sweep was part of the ‘Rep your community’ drive by Gidi Culture festival to encourage youth participation in community projects.
Furthermore, the statement added that 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 weekends alone. They removed bottles, debris from the waterways and litter from the rock bay.
According to them, 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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