The Greens' 10th Anniversary: 10 years of environmental education and action

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On the 01st of January 2010, The Greens NGO was created and registered as a member of DoSomething and Clean Up the World. On the 22nd of November 2010, The Greens got her official registration papers after 11 months of results-oriented environmental education and action.
The year 2020 marks ten years of environmental education and action with ground-breaking impacts that calls for a giant celebration.
It’s also a year of reflection, reminiscing the impact of our green actions and re-strategizing towards the realization of our 05 years green development plan.
From the 24th - 27th of January 2020, its going to be celebration and we are hereby inviting all our volunteers, followers and friends of The Greens to join us in our celebrations.

The following activities have been planned for our 10th Anniversary;

Friday 24th January 2020:
  1. 10:00AM: The Greens’ Open Day and launching of the pioneer EcoDesigns Clothes and Shoes Collection Kiosk.
  2. 12:00 – 02:00PM: Plastic Bottles Drive and launching of The Greens’ pioneer Plastic Collection Bin in Bamenda III Sub Division.
  3. 03:00PM: Radio Program with Abakwa FM Radio
Saturday 25th January 2020:
  1. 05:00AM: Radio Program with CRTV
  2. 10:00AM: Tree Planting and the signing of a partnership with Bamenda III Council for the Establishment of Bamenda III Council Tree Nursery and the planting of 10,000 ornamental trees in Bamenda III Sub Division
  3. 12:00PM – 02:00PM: Climate Ride; a bicycle tour around the city to raise awareness about climate change and plastic pollution.
  4. 03:00PM – 05:00PM: Football for Nature. The Greens F.C VS other Civil Society Organizations in the Region
  5. 07:00PM - ….: Green Gala Nite
Sunday 26th January 2020
  1. Thanksgiving Devotion and at the Regional Baha’i Center at 10:00AM.
Monday 27th January 2020
  1. 35th Birthday celebration of The Greens’ Founder/Executive Director, @mr-greens at his Mile 4 Nkwen Residence.

We will very much appreciate your presence and/or support for our 10th Green Anniversary.

Fundraising

On the occasion of our 10th Green anniversary, we will be raising funds for ecoDesigns rents and to purchase a Sanili Moto Tricycle.
ecoDesigns is our textile recycling and fashion designing hub that is training women and girls for free in textile recycling and fashion designing. The hub graduated 2 trainees in 2019, and currently has 7 trainees who are upcycling 500Ibs of textile waste every month. The hub is also collecting old clothes and shoes from the haves and distributing them to the have-nots and so far, more than 200 persons have benefited from this initiative.
The purpose of the Sanili Moto Tricycle is to enable us to effectively collect plastic bottles, tires and textile waste from around our city to our different recycling sites such as ecodesigns.
You can support us by donating for us to pay or rents or donating for us to purchase the Sanili Moto Tricycle.

Our rent for a month is $70 and for a year is $840.
A Sanili Moto Tricycle costs $1500

You can support us by donating steem/SBD, resteeming this posts, upvoting or writing a blog post about what you like about @thegreens.
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The Greens is a grassroots environmental organization that strives to educate, inspire and engage young people to take action to combat climate change and be at the forefront of biodiversity conservation and waste management.

Founded in 2010, @thegreens have been able to use arts, sports, media and ICT to educate and engage more than 10,000 young people in Green Poetry, Green Music, Green Arts, Green Radio, and Conservation Champions League.

Her tree planting programs have seen the organization create 04 Community Tree Nurseries, planted more than 300,000 trees and together with @kedjom-keku we have acquired 1000 hectares of afromontane forest in Kedjom-Keku Village of the Bamenda Highlands of the North West Region of Cameroon for the creation and conservation of Kedjom-Keku Community Forest

@thegreens is currently engaged in Waste Management (Waste Business Hub); Plastic Waste Upcycling, Tire Upcycling and Textile Waste Recycling via @ecodesigns.
Her #EndPlasticPollution Campaign has seen the organization sensitize more than 100,000 people about plastic pollution, upcycled more than 10,000 plastic bottles to create UPB Vertical Gardens, UPB Tree Nursery Pots, etc.

Her Textile Recycling Project (@ecodesigns) is currently training 13 young girls for free in textile recycling and fashion designing and has recycled more than 5000 pounds of textile waste.

Her Tire Upcycling Project is educating and engaging young people in schools and communities to #StopBurningTires and upcycle them to create Mushroom Tire Seats, Tire Flower Pots, etc

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