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Oando Foundation partners NCF, others, for cleaner Lagos

By Florence Kalu

Oando Foundation has partnered the Nigeria Conservation Foundation (NCF) in its efforts to take the campaign for cleaner environment to Ilasamaja, a suburb of Lagos last Friday.

This ‘Clean Our World’ project, an initiative of the Oando Foundation, funded by Sumitomo Chemicals, Japan with the NCF as an implementing partner.

Mrs Abidemi Balogun, Lead, Environmental Education, NCF, said that the exercise is in continuation of the Clean Our World(COW) Project, initiated by the Oando Foundation.

Balogun said that it was a community cleanup to create awareness on the need to care for the environment and to change people’s attitude towards waste management.

According to her, organizing the cleanup within a School environment with the assistance of volunteers is to make the exercise sustainable

She said that no good learning could take place in a dirty environment, that is why some of the pupils were engaged to imbibe the culture of cleanliness.

Also, one of the partners in the project, African Clean-up Initiative, (ACI), said that the Clean-up exercise was another opportunity to drive home the culture of volunteerism.

Mr Shedrak Bright, Monitoring and Evacuation Manager, ACI, said that ACI has a role to play in teaching the pupils the proper way of sorting and managing wastes.

According to him, the exercise will also teach the pupils how to clean the environment without supervision.

Bright said that instilling environmental consciousness early in the life of the Children would help them to become better waste managers when they grow up.

Bright said that the wastes generated from the exercise would be sent to recyclers and then they in turn, process it, recycle it and send it to an off -taker, who will convert the materials into final products.

Some of the pupils from Olukun, Kusoro, Dele Ajomale, and Ire AIlasamaja and some other volunteers took part in the cleaning exercise to conscientise the pupils.