A COMMUNITY clean-up of Storms River Village took place on Friday, July 19.
Light work was made of the project in which SanParks and their local Working on Fire team, Tsitsikamma Edu-Care, Montessori Tsitsikamma, and residents, participated.
The project was initiated by the Earthlings, a group of village children under leadership of SanParks Kudu Award winner, Joslin Bauer.
Bauer is the Social Economic Transformation Director of STORMS NPC, a non-profit company that was formed by Storms River Village residents to self-regulate safety, security, and tourism.
All its portfolios are voluntary.
Bauer started taking village children on walks in the local forest and fynbos in 2019, and chose Earthlings as the name for their group.
Part of their regular activities is cleaning up their environment.
The second part of the weekend clean-up would have been further collection of litter on July 20, but was postponed to Saturday, July 27, due to bad weather; another community activity to look forward to.
Three new rubbish-bag containers, cement structures sponsored by Glacier by Sanlam, were also put into use. They will eventually be painted by local children.
Black refuse bags were donated by John Ethio Supermarket and retired businessman Jan du Rand.
Du Rand also donated naartjies to sustain the hardworking villagers.
