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The Gidi Culture Festival [@gidiculturefest]: Post Christmas Clean Up Continues At Elegushi Beach
Thursday, January 09, 2014Omoba
The Gidi Culture
Festival team and volunteers participated in the first ever ‘Beach Sweep’ by
clearing out litter and debris at Elegushi beach in Lagos. The event took place
on the last Saturday of the month, highlighting the importance of the
environmental sanitation.
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The beach sweep is part of the ‘Rep your community’
drive by Gidi Culture festival to encourage youth participation in local
communities and community projects. 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 the weekends
alone. They removed bottles, debris from the waterways and litter from the rock
bay.
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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.
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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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