16/09/2010
PACT supports the largest national social involvement project so far: "Let's Do It, Romania! - Cleaning across the whole country. In one day!"
It is an unique social volunteer project, which involves cleaning the entire country of the cities outskirts trash, in a single day. That day, known as the National Cleaning Day, falls on Saturday, September 25, 2010.
The project was initiated in Estonia in 2008, implemented in Latvia and Lithuania (2008, 2009), and for this year, Portugal and Slovenia to join in, along Romania.
By involving a large number of volunteers in this project, we can break a record, because Romania is the largest country in Europe that registered for the project so far!
The Initiative Group of the Bucharest Community Foundation will participate to National Cleaning Day with 30 volunteers. This is the first public action of the Bucharest Community Foundation. Community Foundation is part of a the Program for the Development of the Community Foundations in Romania - coordinated nationally by the
Association for Community Relations in Cluj (ARC), in partnership with PACT (responsible for developing the program in southern Romania) and
Foundation Partnership (REPF).
You can get involved, either as a volunteer, as a supporter, sponsor or donor, by signing up on site
http://www.letsdoitromania.ro. Here you can also find the latest news of the campaign.
Why "Let's Do It, Romania"?
• because Romanians were so tired of “sitting and watching”, without taking any action
• because if we all get involved, for one day, we’ll make a visible change in Romania
• because Waste and garbage is a real problem in Romania
• because Romanian citizens must understand the importance of responsible behaviour towards the environment and the necessity of acting accordingly in everyday life.
You can see
here a very interesting video about cleaning in Estonia.
