Beach clean-up by NMS students
Manama : Tons of trash gets dumped on our coastal land every year. The garbage includes plastic bottles, bags and packaging, food wrappers and cigarette butts – detracting the natural beauty of the shore and harming the sea-life.
Around 110 students from New Millennium School-DPS along with a team of 9 teachers conducted a Beach Cleanup at Busaiteen Beach, Muharraq on Friday. The main highlight of this activity was to encourage and promote community work in students, making them aware of the environmental hazards created by the inconsiderate disposal of garbage.
The ecological activity organised by Lions Club Riffa, reinstated in children the need to promote the sustainability of resources and the three R’s of the environment: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
The school’s environmental ambassadors dedicated almost two hours of hard work towards this cause.
The students braved the cold wind to collect the rubbish from the Beach which could otherwise prove fatal to the marine life. The 2 hours beach cleanup not only lowered the risk of the people gathering within the beach but also attained good benefits to the sea animals.
The volunteers were provided with gloves, shovels, pitch - forks and wheelbarrows. The beach cleanup was a big success and the volunteers managed to fill around 25 bin bags full of rubbish.
All students agreed that the next step in their efforts to keep the beaches clean and pristine, must be to focus on more powerful public awareness campaigns that would try and eliminate, what has become a serious blemish to our sea shores.
Chairman Dr. Ravi Pillai, Managing Director Geetha Pillai and the Principal Arun Kuumar Sharma appreciated the whole-hearted efforts of the students and their teachers in taking part in the campaign.
Principal remarked that the coastal zone is a fragile ecology and one of the most vulnerable to change and damage.
“The smallest and the so seemingly little things like picking up bits of litter can have a very significant impact on the local environment,” he said.
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