Roots & Shoots Coastal Clean Up

For the past month as the weather has begun to cool and Hong Kong has been getting tizzed up in Christmas decorations I've had the beach on my mind.

Not the kind of beach where you get to lie in the sun and feel the white sand between your toes, no, a different beach. A beach that needs cleaning!

I wanted to have an event that would bring together the students in Hong Kong that DO actually care and what better way to do that than to have a clean up day. Under the banner of Roots & Shoots I invited all the current groups and rallied together teachers that seemed keen to get groups started.

A months worth of risk assessments, liaising with the FEHD (Food and Environmental Hygiene Department) and scouting beaches and we were ready. A 75 strong army of students and teachers from primary and secondary schools across Hong Kong and even one group from Mainland China came together at Mui Wo to do our bit.

The day was a huge success with sunny cool weather, St Johns First Aid on hand just in case and a load of keen kids really giving it their best!

Advertising R & S while waiting for groups at the Central Ferry Pier.

The whole Roots & Shoots Gang