A
total of 171 volunteers participated in the Earth Day Clean Up organized by the
SMSP Batch 80 Advocacy for Environmental and Cultural Preservation Inc., in
alliance with the Earth Day Network and Let’s Do It Philippines in Padada, Davao del Sur last April 20
and 22, 2018 respectively.
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| Brgy. Almendras |
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| Brgy. Almendras |
Volunteers from four public schools namely, Don Sergio Osmeña
Elementary School, Gaudioso Orbita Elementary School, Piape Elementary School
and Mariano Sarona Elementary School headed by their respective school principals
together with Barangay Almendras District, conducted a Clean Up in their
respected schools while the group led by Kap Tonette Tecson cleaned up the area
of her jurisdiction two days prior to Earth Day as it falls on a weekend.
A combined total of 278.8kg of plastic trash was collected during the clean up, majority
of which were food wrappers and grocery bags.
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| Don Sergio Osmeña Elementary School |
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| Don Sergio Osmeña Elementary School |
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| Gaudioso Orbita Elementary School |
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| Gaudioso Orbita Elementary School |
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| Piape Elementary School |
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| Piape Elementary School |
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| Mariano Sarona Elementary School |
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The second batch was composed of volunteers from different
sectors such as the Alpha Company of the Reserved Battalion of the Philippine
Army, Girl Scouts of the Philippines Davao del Sur Council, Safekeepers Team
Cooperative and SMSP Batch 80 who conducted the clean up on the 22nd
of April in two specific mangrove areas. The area was selected because of the many
plastics entangling the roots of the mangroves. The amount of plastics
collected weighs approximately 156.4 kg.
After the activity, volunteers were gathered at the Mangrove
area in San Isidro, which is an adopted site of the organizer, where teach in
about Plastic Pollution was conducted as well as the evaluation of the activity.
Lunch
that was sponsored by Vanvi Construction, JPLN Enterprise and Board Member
Atty. Marivic Diamante were shared by the volunteers. Certificates of
Appreciation were distributed thereafter.
Extended effort for coordination was proffered to the Local Government Unit through the Municipal Environment Office, they failed to collect the trash especially in the schools as what have been agreed upon. With own initiative, we delivered volutrarily our collected trash to the dumping site on that sunday, as not a shadow of the garbage truck was visible.
Overall weight of trash collected was 435.2kg the bulk of which were plastic food wrappers, grocery bags, plastic bottles respectively.
We once again extend our sincerest gratitude to our volunteers and sponsors especially Vanvi Construction, JPLN Enterprise, Ercyl and BM Atty. Marivic Diamante.
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