Limbe Streets, Down Beach Cleared of Garbage
The Belinda Babila Foundation, BBF, on 5 June, carried out a
clean-up campaign at Down Beach Limbe and the streets of the Garden City, as
part of activities to mark World Environment Day.
The activities were carried out as part of the campaign to
make the city cleaner, in order to promote a healthier environment. June 5 was
designated by the United Nations as World Environment Day, to highlight the
fact that the protection and health of the environment is a major issue which
affects the well-being of peoples and economic development throughout the world.
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| Clean-up campaign at Down Beach Limbe |
The BBF
team and volunteers, in their numbers, from their Limbe headquarters, cleaned
the streets on their way to Down Beach Limbe, where they pulled out debris from
the sea, as well as picked plastics strewn along the beach. The piles of
garbage were gathered in heaps, transported in wheelbarrows and piled where the
city Council or the waste disposal company, HYSACAM, can easily transport to
various waste disposal sites using their specialised trucks.
Talking
on the clean-up and sensitisation campaigns, the CEO and Founder of the Belinda
Babila Foundation, Dr. Belinda Babila said her team is interested in keeping
the environment safe, in order to promote healthy living, and a clean
environment, especially at a time of pandemic like COVID-19. She also noted
that the next focus of BBF’s campaigns will be health structures where the
pandemic is.
“On
June 5, in commemoration with the UN, on World Environment Day, BBF thought it
wise to keep the environment clean, especially where we sit and where we eat,
for the sake of our health. Looking at Limbe where we are headquartered, we
proceeded to clean Down Beach Limbe which is a touristic site, but full of
debris, which makes it very unhygienic.
“We
made an awareness campaign so that the Limbe City Council and the officials of
Limbe and Cameroon in General should pay attention to the sanitary condition of
Limbe and Cameroon as a whole.
“A
nation can only be built better from a good and clean environment. We have
COVID-19 which is ongoing, and we have to make sure that our environment is
clean to help prevent further COVID-19 spread,” she stated.
She
said the fight against COVID-19 has to also pay attention and increase efforts
in keeping the environment clean, in order to reduce avenues where the virus
can easily spread and infect more people.
“We
plan to go to the hospitals next, because, that is where most of the pandemics
are, and those areas have to be really clean to prevent further infection and
further virus spread, for the global good of humanity.”
She
said the BBF Branch Office in Ghana also engaged in a clean-up campaign, where
they cleaned the Ministry of the Environment, the Ministry of Public Works, and
the Ministry of the Interior.
In a
sensitisation campaign, the BBF team encouraged locals to keep a clean and
healthy environment, and also massively plant trees and avoid felling them, so
as to have a healthy and conducive environment. The BBF team also carried out
the free testing for blood sugar level to commemorate the day.
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