Lawyers’ Environmental Action Team (LEAT) will conduct two near-parallel activities to celebrate the Africa day (May 25th, 2019). The two activities will be implemented on the 24th and 25th of May and will target two different groups. On the 24th of May, LEAT will work with secondary school students in Kijichi ward where students, both female and male will engage in a football competition and other sports. In between sport activities, LEAT and students will plant trees within the school premises and project burners and messages on the environment and climate change issues. LEAT anticipates the activity to reach 200 students. The 24th activity will take stock of the availability of students.
For the 25th of May, LEAT will work with a Community Based Organization (CBO) to clean the beach and plant mangrove trees in Kijichi. Through the activity, stakeholders will collect loose plastic bottles and bags around the coast of Indian Ocean. The collection of plastics will be followed by the planting of mangrove trees thus align with local and global efforts to fight increased plastic pollution in water bodies.