Little Hands Go Green, NEMA Raise Awareness on Plastic Harm to Environment

Ahead of the World Environmental Day celebrations, the Uganda Little Hands Go Green initiative has engaged in an exercise to clean up Mbale town in Eastern Uganda.

In addition to tidying up the town, the move was aimed at creating awareness on environmental protection particularly getting rid of the polythene pollution.

The World Environmental Day mini caravan was launched Friday from Kampala in Kireka where pupils of Palace Junior School were sensitized on the dangers of plastic bags (kavera) on their wellbeing as well as the environment.

The event was attended by Joseph Masembe, the CEO and founder of Uganda Little Hands Go Green together with the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) Deputy Executive Director, Ms. Christine Akello.

During the launch, Joseph Masembe said Kireka had been chosen as the venue for the launch given that it has a lot of dumping of plastic wastes and it would directly show children the plight of what the country like Uganda is facing. He asked children to be ambassadors of the ‘kavera’ free Uganda.

On Saturday, the campaign went to Mbale district where Masembe and the young pupils who are the Uganda Little Hands Go Green ambassadors cleaned several areas in Mbale and collected plastic bags.

The Mayor of Mbale, Zandya Mutwalibi also took part in the clean up activity. Other representatives from National Water and Sewerage Corporation, Uganda Wildlife Authority and Red Cross participated as well.

The activities are aimed at setting the pace in the lead up to Uganda’s commemoration of World Environmental Day on June 5 where President Yoweri Museveni is expected to be chief guest.

Uganda’s Little Hands Go Green is a civil society organization that has for the past few years dedicated time and resources to pioneering a model that seeks to assign proprietary interest of a green future to our children.

Through its numerous outreaches in schools across Uganda, the organization has so far planted over 250 thousand trees across various districts.