Clean Up’s own initiative was also a success

WILLEMSTAD - The fifth Curaçao Clean Up last Saturday was a complete success. This is according to the members of the organization who emphasized that this year was on their initiative. They took care of St. Joris Bay, Caracas Bay, the downtown area and various underwater locations around the island.

This year, the organization was in the hands of volunteers themselves: everyone in Curaçao who wanted to clean had to find a place and gather a group of volunteers. The Curaçao Clean Up Foundation facilitated like other years, brooms, rakes, gloves and hundreds of sturdy garbage bags.

In addition to hundreds of volunteers, the action was again achieved thanks to a number of financial and material sponsors, for which the Curaçao Clean Up Foundation is very grateful. The number of kilos collected is not yet known, but for the foundation, this is not important. “We have chosen a new form for organizing the Clean Up. People have become familiar with the event in recent years and know how it works. It felt like the right time to put more initiative into the participants themselves,” said Corinne Van Hal of the organization.