NARRATIVE REPORT ABOUT COASTAL CLEANUP

What is Coastal Cleanup? Have you heard about this program? Are you aware of this program? If Yes, Can this program help our community? That’s the questions that we need to answer later.

            Last September 13, 2014, an event called International Coastal Cleanup was held and participated by various schools; it is one of the largest international volunteer events that happen every year. Lot of schools in Northern Mindanao joined the said event, St Peter’s College also joined this event, and all of the participants were gathered in St. Peter’s stage before they will move to Brgy. Saray where they were assigned to clean, the cleanup starts around 7 to 7:30 o’clock in the morning. Lot of students participate in this so called event for two (2) main reasons first they participate for the sake of their grades and second for them to help or to volunteer cleaning those shorelines. Students of St. Peter’s and citizens of Saray was unite by this event, we clean the shorelines for atleast 2 hours and for that short time that we clean Saray’s shoreline we gathered about 15 or more sack of trash or marine debris, we know that trash cause innumerable impacts to people, water quality, marine wildlife and the primary source of water pollution, but because of the help of some agencies, citizens and us, nothing is impossible. This event was a great success for us as a group and as an individual itself, it ended with a peaceful mind and big smile.

            Most of the students are willing to go to that shoreline, before going there, I really thought it would be a normal shoreline but we found out that it’s not normal it is so crummy, miserable place and it has the unpleasant smell and it likes you want to vomit or something, poops of animals are everywhere, trash are everywhere like cans, plastic bottles, plastic bags and many more and I think the water or sea in Saray was contaminated already, but one thing that interest me most it was a traveling bag and a huge tire so I keep thinking why is that there’s an object like that in there shorelines, I wonder if people discarded it or that thing where carried away by flood. This event or activity serves us a lesson to be a responsible and useful individual in the society, it taught us to be more mature and to open our minds on what’s going on to our community, also it gives us a knowledge on how trash affect our ocean, damage marine lives and us.

            Therefore, being responsible is just not enough but we need to respect our nature, we need to protect it and we need to cooperate and volunteer in any activity that tackles about environment, thus we should listen and do action that can help the environment even in the simplest way, that’s the reason why International Coastal Cleanup was implemented for us to be able to promote Clean and Green surroundings, hence it is not just ordinary activity but by the help of this event we can overcome the difficulties in dealing with the garbage in shorelines and also because of it we can save lot of marine lives, Yes we’re just only human that made a mistakes but we need also to think that they are also a living things that needs respect and help, without them we are nothing, we will never exist in this world, we need to use our knowledge not just for our own sake but for everyone’s betterment.