The activity, which commenced at Kotu Stream road with an interactive and educative storytelling later proceeded to the Brufut Beach, where the children were engaged in painting, drama among other activities on how the ecosystem gets affected. Also, the initiative was designed to raise awareness among people on the need to teach how to take care of nature.
Amal Abbass, co-founder of Fuji Janga and Managing Director of Tubman Network and the Founder of Kindezi Gambia, explained that they conducted the initiative to raise awareness on the need to take good care of the environment.
“In order to make sure that we protect and save the land of our ancestors and embrace our future, we are hoping a lot of arts and culture preservation, as well as the encouragement of biodiversity.” she explained.
She also spoke of their resolve to working on collaborating with other countries so as to facilitate scholarships between Germany and The Gambia as well.
Abass maintained that one of the things the children are learning, is not to throw the plastic bottles, but to recycle them very consciously in a creative manner.
Modou Sanu Jallow, Director of Fuji Janga Foundation, said the project is to promote civilization.
“Most of the time we see too much littering in our communities, plastics and batteries will pollute the soil and disturb the ecosystem, and this is what we want to show the children as they are the next generation and future leaders, so that they will be able to have the understanding and the knowledge to be able to protect the ecosystem in the future and grow with the knowledge.” he explained.
He noted that this is beneficial to the community and the society in view of the fact that when the society is clean and free from chemicals and plastics, it is one way of keeping the environment clean and healthy.
Kefilwe Catherine Kosan, Monitoring and Evaluation and Communication Specialist, revealed that the activity is about educating children in an authentic way and to help them protect their heritage.
“I'm really impressed with how all the children have observed what they have learned today and what they’re actually doing to their environment and what negative effects that it will have on them. I had a couple of exchanges with them and they seem like, wow, okay, so now they get it, me throwing a plastic somewhere, it's eventually going to end up in the ocean and for it to be in the ocean, that is the pollution, so that means the fishes will die, and the environment is going to be affected.” she further explained.
