By Kate Robey | Charitable Trust Operations Manager
Dear Supporter,
Last time we told you about how we were getting started with our reusable shopping bag project. It is an idea that we started talking about during one of our beach cleans. There is so much plastic bag litter everywhere that we decided we needed to do something.
We have partnered with the Community Development Centre (CDC) in Ban Nam Khem. It is a school, primarily for Burmese children, with a focus on building the vocational skills of the children in order to increase their job prospects and therefore, encouraging their parents to permit the children to stay in school longer. Often children would be pulled out of school at an early age to help earn money for their family.
A few students at the CDC who have been learning how to sew have created canvas shopping bags for us for a salary. At the moment, we have had 28 bags sewn by the students at the CDC. On November 27, all of our GVI volunteers and the environmental education class from the CDC will paint the canvas bags while the children are educated on the importance of using reusable bags.
Not only will the project help support the students at the CDC by providing an income, we will also be educating the students on pressing, and locally relevant, environmental issues and making a difference, however small, to our local coastline.
Thank you for your continued support!
With Gratitude,
GVI- Thailand
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