June 6th, 2009: the annual commemoration of the Normandy landings gave the idea to organize another type of landing!
More than 700 people "invaded" the beach for a big clean-up operation, on the Moroccan beach of Mehdia, near Kenitra, a town in the northwest of Morocco.
Action stations!
Armed with rubbish bags, pupils, teachers and the pupils' parents from the Honoré de Balzac school in Mehdia and from the St Exupéry middle school of Rabat, met last Saturday to clean up one of the best Moroccan surf spots.
Hervé Serol, teaching at Kenitra's GSU Balzac who initiated the operation which was also part of the programs of Education to Environment and to Sustainable Development and the school's "Pilot Educational Actions" (on the environment and the fight against pollutions and waste), managed to gather the whole academic team to collect the waste found on the beach of Mehdia.
Results:
- More than 700 participants
- More than 50m3 of collected waste
- A 3 hour-waste collection
Thanks to everyone who rallied for this eco-citizen operation and to the many partners!
