Small organisation fights pollution in Cape Town rivers
“Things often just look like they’re falling apart and there can be a lot of finger-pointing and blaming. But Help Up has opened up people’s imagination to the fact that things can actually be fixed if everybody gets involved,” says Georgia McTaggart, founder of a small and growing river cleanup initiative called Help Up.
The non-profit organisation started in July 2018 and recently celebrated 52 weeks of cleaning up the Black River in Mowbray. The organisation also started cleaning up the Langa canal 15 weeks ago and is looking to expand to more places in Langa and to Khayelitsha.
According to McTaggart, Help Up has collected about 80 tons of waste, stopping it from going into the ocean. It has provided work to over 330 people. The Help Up team consists of homeless and unemployed people who are paid for their work, alongside many volunteers.
Source: goodthingsguy.com
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