Buea-Based NGO, known as Association For Community Awareness, ASCOA partners with
TeamSeas and Ocean Conservancy with support from Idenau council, the Light, Teksglobal foundation recently rally youths, volunteers and CBOs to clean up Idenau Beach seashore.
Speaking to the press after the exercise, the CEO and founder of ASCOA, Linus Ayangwoh Embe said; we decide to engage to safe mostly marine life and also the coastline that is the reason we engage in beach clean up while the reason we choose Idenau is because of the cholera outbreak and also Idenau is one of the community that people attention are focus when is concern coastline.
He added that they carried visibility study and a workshop was organised on Monday April 18, 2022 with the inhabitants of Idenau to educate them on the important of keeping the coast line clean and waste management.
“We get involved with the Idenau council and also the person in charge of environment in the community. Idenau council is part of this clean up and we try to engage them in sustainability of what we have done today” Linus Ayangwoh said.
ASCOA and Idenau council are already working in collaboration to see how they can solve some of these problems affecting this community which the first problem of good toilet in this community.
“We need to educate the community because most of them don't understand what it means by keeping the environment clean so subsequently we are going to organise more workshops, do more advocacy for the community so that we can educate them and implement these actions”. Linus Ayangwoh explained.
According to Mukute Samuel one of the team leader, they are out to make sure that they carry on effective cleaning. He stressed on the fact that, they have taken into consideration all the measures to avoid any contamination of any form of bacterial.
“Some of the challenge I have encounter as a group coordinator is in term of data analysis there are certain things which we fine in the beach which are not mention in the booksheet for data analyzation”,
“So it become very challenging someone like me what I did was I improvised that is, I have added some extract space to the list including others things which are not in the book sheet in other to have a comprehensive data analysis” Mukute Samuel explained.
On his part, Sunday Etim. An inhabitant of Idenau thank ASCOA for this initiative, he explained that, the inhabitants living along the beach are suffering from disease like cholera, malaria, typhoid and a host of other diseases because the Idenau council have little or no attention as regards the wellbeing of it's citizens.
“Here at Idenau we have just one toilet and the Idenau council do not put strict measure so people use them anyhow and they mess the toilets making it uncomfortable for others, as regards to the plastic and other dirty along the seashore it not coming from us the inhabitants but instead from travelers who travel on a daily bases”,
“So we are calling on Idenau council, to place sanctions on anyone found with dirty along the beach and also for the council to build enough public toilet around so that people will not have to go beside the shore to pass out waste”. Sunday Etim said.
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