South Africans are cleaning up, not just on the rugby field!
Volunteers came out in numbers to take part in cleanups facilitated by the Shoprite Group on World Cleanup Day (15 September 2018). Some 250 cleanup events took place in eight countries across Africa.
This cleanup drive comes on the back of the retail group staging Africa’s biggest cleanup July 2018, in which 12 000 volunteers participated in 465 cleanup events in 12 countries.
“Our objective is clear: we want to start a movement in which volunteers commit to regularly cleaning their environment. World Cleanup Day was a great initiative to rally around to give further momentum to this movement, kick-started by Africa’s biggest cleanup,” says Lunga Schoeman, CSI spokesperson for the Shoprite Group.
One such cleanup champion is Refilwe Mofokeng, a staunch environmentalist, who organises monthly coastal cleanups in the Durban area. World Cleanup Day is also International Coastal Cleanup Day, which prompted Refilwe to organise a cleanup of the Durban Harbour.
Source: SA Good News
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