River cleanup starts this weekend
A program begins this weekend to cleanup the rivers and communities of the Cayo District. The “Save Our Rivers Campaign” is being coordinated by Radio Ritmo with the help of primary and secondary schools in the district. Luis Garcia says the cleanup effort is not a one-time event, but will include follow-ups by the school children. He says it is also intended to be fun as well as educational.
Luis Garcia, Coordinator, “Save Our Rivers”
“Our main aim is by the ending of February we are gonna have clean from the border over the Western Border to San Ignacio the roads, the villages, towns and the rivers as well. So far we coordinated with all the primary schools. Next week the primary schools will be taking the initiative of carrying out the anti-litter campaign in their towns and the villages, where we will be doing the roads together with the high schools and also will be doing the rivers.
As part of the, “Save our rivers” campaign we have created the eco-triathlon which is a race that will be done the same route that will be doing in the cleanup campaign to show that our natural resources are not only to be protected but also to be used properly. We will be doing a cleanup campaign right after the triathlon. The triathlon will be a biking from San Ignacio to the border back to Clarissa Falls and will be running from Clarissa Falls to Bullet Tree Falls and from Bullet Tree back to San Ignacio.
All this is to show the importance and the beauty of our natural resources.”
Although the cleanup campaign begins this weekend and runs thru the end of the month, the Great Cayo Eco-Triathlon takes place on February twenty-eighth. Over fifteen hundred dollars in prizes have been donated.
