– The Kuwait diving team of the Environmental Voluntary Foundation stressed importance of involving governmental and private institutions and young people in campaigns to clean the beaches to promote environmental concepts and ensure safety of the marine environment.
Head of the team Walid Al-Fadhel told KUNA, Saturday, that the team organizes cleaning campaigns for all the country’s beaches, and allows for volunteers to participate in its campaigns, indicating that it provides the cleaning supplies.
Al-Fadhel explained that this environmental initiative includes carrying out dozens of campaigns to clean Kuwait coasts with voluntary community participation and remove plastic wastes and discarded fishing nets in order to preserve the coastal environment and its biodiversity.
He added that these campaigns are a unique opportunity, providing volunteer opportunities for Kuwaiti youth wishing to contribute to environmental campaigns, supported and sponsored by several government agencies, including Youth Public Authority and Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS).
In a related context, he mentioned that the team issued its annual report for 2022, reviewing the most prominent works and volunteer activities it carried out within its environmental initiative (clean seas) in cooperation with several governmental and private agencies, based on joint cooperation with the UN Environment Program through effective projects and programs. He stated that the team have been working for more than 35 years since 1986, and has many achievements in various fields, indicating that the team was able to accomplish its diligent environmental activities and tasks at the rate of environmental activity every two days during the past year, as it accomplished 120 environmental tasks.
He pointed to the team’s participation in many international and local exhibitions, most notably the UN exhibition at Shedadiyah University, which highlighted youth initiatives that contribute to environmental and climate action and encourage society to adopt them, in addition to the Kuwait Book Fair in its 45th edition.
Source: Kuwait News Agency