On the 17th of September, 28 of the Liger students and around 10 foreigner from different country join us to do beach cleanup at Kep. Nilroth and I have organize this event to make it possible for everybody to participate and get to actually go and do the action. This event happen all around the world and Cambodia never participate. So we spend half of the morning and half of the afternoon picking up rubbish at different two locations at the coast of Kep beach. When we pick up the rubbish, we divide people in to small groups. Those small groups have a specific type of rubbish to pick up so it make the collecting data easier. Speaking of data, we also collect data so we can put it in the Ocean Conservancy website and it’ll show that we’re the first ever Cambodian group to participate in this event, International Coastal Cleanup. We collect a total of 85 trash bags for the two locations.
I really join doing this because it really help the environment and I really do care about environment around me and people in the community. I was proud of myself because my group is the first ever Cambodian to participate. I was exciting that MCC (Marine Conservation Cambodia) staff come and join us too and they were all foreigner. It was a marvelous time and I hope to join again next year.
Here is our data for the different location:
