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Clean Green Cayo

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Clean Green Cayo is an environmental project led by the Rotaract Club of San Ignacio in Cayo District, Belize. The Rotaract Club is a youth service and leadership project carried out under the auspices of local Rotary Clubs and of Rotary International at large.

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Clean Green Cayo aims primarily to educate and create a more eco-friendly mindset amongst the local community. This seven-phase environmental project will demonstrate to the community that people can take simple concrete actions to improve quality of life and to boost the local economy through a paradigm shift and through individual commitment to living more eco-friendly lives.

Seven Phase Environmental Project

  • Phase 1 - Environmental Awareness Media Campaign
  • Phase 2 - Creation of trench, berm and ficus tree wall
  • Phase 3 - Reforestation in the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve
  • Phase 4 - Highway and Riverside Adoption
  • Phase 5 - Initiating Multi-institutional Recycling
  • Phase 6 - Waste bin acquisition, distribution and promotion of use
  • Phase 7 - Educational Campaign in school system
  • Ficus Friends

    All volunteers involved in this project will be encouraged to become a "Ficus Friend" by pledging their commitment to the environment verbally and receiving the Ficus Friend Seminar which includes an introduction to Rotaract and Rotary International as well as the The Four-Way Test, Best Eco-friendly practices and Public Speaking as well as Pedagogical Techniques when explaining the importance and benefits of protecting and conserving the vast biodiversity in the Cayo district.

    References

    Clean Green Cayo Wikipedia