EcoCamp in Gilutongan Island, Cebu

SEED4Com with participation from Rotary Club Mandaue East, Kindred Nomads, and other individual volunteers has adopted the island of Gilutongan to help the community develop a waste management program by working together with the locals and other interested stakeholders in addressing ecologically sustainable development one island at a time.

Calling themselves as Island Warrior Trash Heroes, individuals and volunteers from different organizations have started doing the coastal cleanup last August 30, 2014. As their own contribution, the locals of Gilutongan have followed this initiative, making it as a weekly cleanup to make their island a sustainable ecotourism destination free from trash.

On September 20-21, SEED4Com with the Island Warrior Trash Heroes will be having their first EcoCamp in the island for coastal clean up and mangrove planting. The group will also be holding workshop and training for the community to come up with a plan of action to implement a waste management program and be able to provide clean and safe water, livelihood and education for the families of Gilutongan island.

This initiative is in support to the Let’s Do It! movement across the globe.

Fastest-expanding civic movements across the globe

Let’s Do It was born in 2008 in a little country of Northern Europe – Estonia, where thousands of people came together to get rid of 10,000 tons of illegal garbage from roadsides, forests and towns, cleaning the entire country in just 5 hours.

The action inspired people from many different countries to do the same. Thus, the network of people, determined to organize massive cleanup actions to clean their home countries, started to grow. By today, almost 200 different inspired cleanup actions, engaging altogether about 10 million volunteers, have already taken place in different countries.

Let’s Do It! is a civic led non-profit and non-political movement. Let’s Do It! World is an accredited member of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). In 2012, Let’s Do It! movement, hand in hand with hundreds of volunteers, NGOs and many other groups and organizations, came together to initiate the most ambitious global volunteer action ever – World Cleanup 2012: a series of local, national and regional cleanup events taking place from 24th of March 2012 until 25th of September 2012. By now, the movement has reached 112 countries who are in the Let’s Do It! network.

Let’s come together to see how we can all contribute to the clean world goal – uniting 5% of the world’s population in Let’s Do It campaigns – come and speak your mind, your dreams, your experiences and your ideas – so that we can work with these as a unstoppable global team!