My first litter picking campaign

Litter is an environmental issue that is still a concern in our communities in Botswana. Not only that the litter pollutes the environment, it also raises health issues too. However The Environmental Conservation Society (ECS) which is basically a group of youth at the Botswana College of Agriculture who are passionate about the environmental conservation and wildlife protection and whom I work with closely in the committee decided to keep our community of Sebele clean. This was proposed to be done in a form of a clean-up campaign. On the 6th of September 2014 at 0800hrs we gathered around as the clubs members as we were initiating our clean-up campaign. We geared up in our ECS T-shirts, disposable bags and protective gloves. We started picking up litter from the eastern side of our school. Moving along into the residential areas of Sebele, we attracted the settler?s attention. A number of kids and teens decided to join in the campaign.This also gave us an opportunity to interact with the settlers and enlighten them with the current environmental issues and how their small contributions to environmental conservation are very significant to the big picture of conservation. We also had some few members of other clubs come to help us undertake the campaign. This helped us get along with fellow youth conversationalists and made our campaign very powerful.I am looking forward to our second cleanup campaign, which would hopefully involve more conversationalists to help us spread the importance of conservation.