This clean up is a future-oriented environmental movement to leave a clean world & a better world for our children. I hope that our efforts for environment, enhance natural self-purification capacity so that people and nature harmonize together in this earth.
Youth, housewives join hands, clean Mula-Mutha
Drive was organised by South Korean NGO WeLoveU.
Members of South Korea-based International WeLoveU Foundation [Chairwoman Zahng gil jah] along with hundreds of student and housewives from the city participated in a clean up drive and removed four truck loads of garbage, mostly polythene bags, from the Mula-Mutha river stretch near Kalyani Nagar Bridge on Sunday. Two Korean students from the city also participated in the drive. Anita Mathews, city in-charge of the foundation, said,
“This particular part of the river had become very dirty due to garbage and littering by the passers-by. Around 400 people associated with the foundation collected around four truck loads of garbage including polythene bags, thermocol, used tyres, cigarette butts, wrapping paper and scrap. There was 90 per cent plastic waste.”
Korean volunteers Mark Kim and Jane Hwang, who are pursuing a computer course in Pune, participated in the drive. Mark said,
“Beside being members of the foundation, we feel it was our responsibility to join the drive. It was a great experience to clean the river.”
The activity was part of the 2012 "Clean WORLD movement" by the foundation. According to the foundation, ""WORLD"is an acronym for Water, Oxygen, Region, Life, and Descendants.
The idea behind it is to leave a clean world for our descendants. The foundation is engaged in welfare activities and conducts similar drives worldwide.
