Environmental
Content Creator
Environmental
Content Creator
Environmental
Content Creator
Environmental
Content Creator
Environmental
Content Creator
Rhino Poaching Crisis
October 2019
I have been dreaming about coming to @careforwild for a really long time. CFW is on a mission to save rhinos from extinction and I was extremely proud and beyond excited to join them and @conservationace team for a month. I was volunteering, assisting with daily cleaning, feeding, and doing maintenance as well as documenting everything that happens here to raise awareness on rhino crisis and tell a wider audience about the amazing work that those organizations are doing here.
I always knew about the problem with illegal poaching and hunting but didn't really know much about the rhino crisis until I visited a game reserve in Cape Town in 2018. Just a day before my arrival poachers killed one of the rhinos. The incident was really fresh, so everyone was talking about it. Knowing that rhino herself, our guide was very emotional when talking about rhino numbers going down and why.
This is when I decided that I want to join @conservationace to learn more, help and raise awareness about it on my socials.
@careforwild pays incredible attention to education here: documentaries, participation in discussions, listening to presentations, learning shocking information that gives you goosebumps. So my role here was to present that information to people and make them learn and act.
Ecobricking in South Africa
November 2019
The idea for this project came to me after spending 3 months in Cape Town in 2018, working for a charity that was raising awareness on plastic pollution in our oceans and volunteering in SANCCOB by saving sick and injured penguins. With my own eyes I saw terrible effects that plastic has on our oceans, I saw penguins being entangled and suffocated by it, we were finding pieces of plastic inside penguins’ stomachs, I saw many of them dying on my arms. This was when I knew I had to do something about it. I was dreaming about organizing my own volunteer project where I would be able to take people on board and work together towards making our planet better and cleaner.
After almost a year of preparation, finding the right team and getting sponsorship from Keen Europe and PayPal, I took a group of 7
volunteers to Durban, South Africa, where for a month we were cleaning beaches and riverbanks in the area, raising awareness on plastic pollution thought content creation, building new facilities in a local Monkey sanctuary with eco-bricks thought repurposing the plastic waste
and doing outreach in local townships to teach locals how to turn their waste into building materials.
In just a month time this is a list of things that we have done and I couldn't be more proud of all of us:
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We did 5 beach clean ups
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Collected over 80 bags of plastic
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Did 4 educational sessions about plastic pollution to over 150 local people
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Taught adults and kids to make ecobricks
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Created tons of environmental photo and video content that by now has already been seen by millions and this is only the start.
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Collaborated with a local school, continued their mission and gave their ecobricks new life in a form of 3 bins that will now be placed in @saasa_monkeylandkzn along with information sign about plastic pollution
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Made 157 ecobricks
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112 of them we used to build 3 chairs and a table that will be used for kids to play in the monkey sanctuary
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Build shelves, compost bin, made art for MonkeyLand
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Visited recycling plant, learned more about waste management, visited local environmental projects Litterboom!
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And of course, had tons of fun along the way, grew and became better humans!