Earth Day success

Some volunteers with members of the community that
came out to help clean up Khula on Earth Day.

Volunteers and staff took it on board to celebrate internationally-recognised Earth Day on the 22 April by organising a community garbage collection. The volunteers made posters the week before and posted them around the Khula community. 

Volunteers and staff were joined by members from Ezwenelisha, Mother's, and Khula support groups, community workers, the councillor (a politician in the local area) and various other people totalling 59 individuals. Everyone worked hard in the morning collecting garbage and together we collected 62 massive bags of trash! We concluded the morning with fruit, juice and a speech about the importance of caring for our environment. 

Following the event, volunteers delivered environmentally-themed topics on various projects such as recycling and plastic bottle crafts. The below description is an example of what the volunteers suggested as an alternate life for a plastic bottle..

Mosquito/Insect Trap

Click here to see a photo of a completed mosquito trap.

Cut the top (just before the start of the cone) off a 2 litre bottle.

Invert the cone and place it inside the straight part of the bottle.

Glue the two pieces together, using a glue or silicon.

Add 1 tsp yeast and 1/2 cup sugar to some luke warm water, and pour the mixture into the bottle.

Mosquitoes are attracted to the carbon dioxide that you exhale. The yeast feeds off the sugar and emits the same gas, so the mosquito enters the bottle, thinking she will find food there. The little critters cannot then get out.