Save Our Waterfalls Campaign - 25 October 2009

I took part in this campaign organised by Waterfalls Survivors in conjuction with International Day of Climate Action with 2200 activities happening simulataneously on 25 Oct 2009 all over the world.

Kanching Waterfalls







With Ms. Joe Yap, the founder of Waterfall Survivors

Waterfall Survivors is a social group founded on Facebook by Joe Yap & her committee team. This campaign took place in Sg. Kanching Waterfalls in Rawang, Selangor. On that day, we have more than 300 volunteers coming together to clean-up the waterfalls area. Some are college students from Sunway College & international students from Sunway International School, other volunteers are from all walks of life. We started the day with a simple opening ceremony by YB (forgotten the name) & later all the volunteers are split into 4 groups with a leader. We have 4 different stations. I'm at Station B. Together with my group members we quickly pick-up all the rubbish at the Station. There were so many rubbish there, there were even more rubbish in other Station. It seems like the higher the station, there were even more rubbish. We took a lunch break at 12.30p.m & continue with the clean-up after that. By 1.30p.m, we formed a human chain to carry down all the rubbish bag. We took a long time to finish this - almost 1 hr plus & the end result - 500bags of rubbish. I can say that most of the rubbish bags are damn so heavy - filled with empty glass bottles & other heavy stuff.

Me @ Work

But there's one thing that make me sad is that most of the general public are ignorant on what we are doing - they keep on throwing rubbish everywhere & some of them are not helping us. There were many people visiting the waterfalls on that day but they just don't be bothered. I think we need more education on caring & protecting our environment for the well-being of populations of the world.

350 - all the black colour bags behind us are full of rubbish...




Sponsors logo printed on the Tshirt




The committee in orange

Anyway, I feel so good able to help out / volunteer on this campaign on a Sunday. Thank you for all other volunteers to help out. It's great to see other people also care for the environment.

Me & my certs & goodie bag - too bad I don't get any lucky draw gift.