Durban eco champs work towards change
The team has made a big difference from cleaning rivers to forming school eco clubs and performing clean ups.
USING multimedia presentations at Clermont schools, the eco warriors who are part of the Aller River Pilot Project (ARPP) are continuing their work of saving planet Earth.
In the past week, the Eco champs team visited Ziphathele Secondary School and Zakhele Primary School to teach learners about climate change.
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Project manager, Luci Coelo, said their main focus is to break into the KwaShembe area by educating young people about climate change so that the info they share with them can be passed onto their parents, friends and the community.
“Pollution and carbon dioxide cause global warming and global warming results in climate change. We need to make our youth understand climate change and what we as citizens can do.”
Coelo said they always advise people to follow the four RRRRs which are: Refuse, Reuse, Reduce and Recycling.
At Ziphathele they donated 30 portulacaria afra also known as spekboom in Afrikaans and isimuncwane in IsiZulu.
“Portulacaria afra is a plant indigenous to South Africa, it has an unusual high capacity to pull carbon dioxide from the air thus it is a useful plant to combat climate change,” said Coelo.
She added that there is a campaign in SA to promote the planting of spekboom.
The project was started in 2016 to help find sensible solutions to address the deteriorating health of the rivers in eThekwini.
The team has made a big difference from cleaning rivers to forming school eco clubs and performing clean ups.
They have been awarded with awards for the work they do in the community.
To continue with their award-winning commitment, the project needs sponsors as their funding is running out this month.
People or businesses who wish to assist can email info@kloofconservancy.org.za
Donations go to the implementing agent for this project, the Kloof Conservancy, which allocates the money to the Aller River Pilot Project.
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