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Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO) partnered Environment 360 in collaboration with Adventure Junkies organised the first ever annual float your boat fundraiser in Ghana. The event was graciously hosted at the Lakeside Marina Park on Saturday at Accra. The initiative was to educate people on sustainable methods of waste management and how to make money from plastic waste. The event featured other organizations - Adventure Junkies, UT Bank and Trotro Diaries. The concept of the event was for each team including my organization (Green Africa Youth Organization) to build a boat or raft with plastic waste and battle it out on the lake to be winners in a race. Prior to the day of the event, each of the competing teams went around bar and pubs, collecting water bottles and other plastics in a bid to create awareness of the plastic waste menace in the country. In addition to the awareness creation, it is also hoped that the float your boat campaign will expose people to creative and sustainable uses of plastic waste.
1. GAYO team getting ready to float Crafts such as waste bins and miniature statues were made also using empty plastic bottles. In addition to the lake competition, there were other team building activities like volleyball and football to make the event more lively and attract environmental enthusiasts to donate towards environmental protection.
2. #TeamGAYO floating our plastic boat. Funds raised from this event will go to support the community programming projects of Environment 360 which include expanding the national sanitation day with public schools, as well as creating five targeted education programs that teach children waste segregation habits, gardening skills and leadership skills that empower them to be waste ambassadors in their communities.
3. Paddling was not easy but #TeamGAYO finished second. Little by little, Environment 360, just like GAYO also hopes to inspire people to find creative ways to reduce or reuse their own waste, especially recyclable waste and also see plastic waste as more than just a #waste. I was proud to have steered my organization in partnering such an innovative activity. |
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Thank you all for commending my activities. I think we can all do this in our region, at least, once a year. The boats are easy to make. We made these boats with 80% plastics and 20% metal wire to fasten the bottles together. It is strong and can assist during situations. An event like this also attracts people and gave us the opportunity to broadcast the news of reuse, recycle and reduce.
Posted 09-10-2015 18:55
Awesome!! The boat was made from plastics bottles. That was so creative. I think of making this one also in my region. It could be a great 'reduce, reuse, and recycle' campaign. Thanks for this great report
Posted 09-10-2015 15:46
This is wonderful, boat made of plastic bottles! Ghana go green.... Good work done Joshua.
Posted 08-10-2015 19:40
Dear Joshua, this is commendable. Wow! floating boat made of plastic bottles for fundraising.
So proud to see your leadership in this creative event. I am sure it was a great fun with a cause. Thank you for sharing with amazing pictures :)
Posted 08-10-2015 09:51
Congratulations Joshua for being a part of such an innovative drive.The boats made out of plastic bottles are indeed a great way to create awareness about recycling.Keep it up! Thanks for sharing.
Posted 08-10-2015 00:41
That is brilliant mate!!!! Reusing is a very important concept nowadays!!!! Thanks for sharing!!! =D
Posted 07-10-2015 14:33
Joshua, Well done & excellent green effort. This boat with bottles is difficult to make & sail but is a useful innovation.
Congratulations & keep is up!
Posted 07-10-2015 12:30
Inspiring event Joshua.Those boats are beautiful and as Arushi said coneveying message.
Glad that you were a part of it.Congratulations!! Keep up the good works and thanks for sharing. :D
Posted 07-10-2015 12:04
Joshua, Joshua, Joshua
That is a very brilliant initiative you and your organization have been a part of... Who would have thought that boats could be made out of bottles? And as the rainy season nears in most African countries, those would work nicely in times of flooding where the ordinary boats are expensive to make...
Great pics too...
Keep it up
Posted 07-10-2015 08:00
Thank you for reading, Arushi Madan. It was not easy making that boat. lol
Posted 07-10-2015 07:04
WOW! The boat made from plastic bottles is looking so good and is conveying the message of 3Rs very effectively. Very creative awareness event. Congrats for steering your organisation for such an amazing fundraiser.Thanks for sharing & inspiring. Lovely pics too.
Posted 07-10-2015 01:15