Scores of volunteers from Dumaguete City and Negros Oriental took out trash from the Dumaguete shorelines for the annual International Coastal and Waterways Clean Up last Saturday.
The coastal cleanup is an activity held every 3rd week of September and observed worldwide through various cleanup programs.
The local coastal cleanup was also conducted on river banks with participants coming from various schools, colleges, universities, local and national government agencies and private institutions.
Aidalyn Celis Arabe, an active environmental advocate of 350.Org, said key groups coordinating the activity were the local government unit of Dumaguete, the provincial government of Negros Oriental, the Coast Guard and its auxiliary group, the BPI Bayan, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, the United States Peace Corps, the 302nd Infantry Brigade of the Philippine Army, 350.Org, the Philippine National Police, Foundation University, St. Paul University-Dumaguete, and a number of business establishments, among others.
“Our environment needs us to do something for the centuries of harm we humans have brought upon it,” Arabe said in a post on the social networking site, Facebook.
Environment and Natural Resources Officer-in-Charge Flora Ocao also said the city government of Dumaguete has been in the forefront in the observance of International Coastal and Waterways clean-up drive for the last 15 years. (PNA/JFP)
