Uganda Scouts Go Green and Stay Clean!

Uganda Scouts are leading a year of “Go Green and Stay Clean” actions to support the environment and have called on all Ugandans to join them!

Over the next year, in a buildup to Earth Hour 2022, Scouts will participate in three main action and encourage their peers and communities to do the same, with in partnership with WWF and various Government Agencies.

They are leading plastic clean-up efforts in homes, roads, drainage channels, trading centers and all institutions as well as recycling projects, putting as much as possible to good use, plus they are working hard to tackle the throw-away culture of plastic waste and to educate Scouts, their peers and communities.

Ugandan Scouts are working to encourage as many households as possible to only procure reusable plastics (water bottles, shopping bags and food containers, etc.) to encourage significant long-term behaviour change and tackle the throw-away culture of plastic waste.

And the Scouts are aiming to plant more than 10,000 indigenous fruit trees themselves and encourage Ugandans nationwide to plant even more, to boost food security and ecosystems.

These actions are also part of the wider Recycling and Water Disposal project, generously supported by WSF partner and donor, Alwaleed Philanthropies. Find out more in this video and scroll through the gallery below to see Ugandan Scouts in action!

Photos (c) Uganda Scout Association.
The first photo shows Gen. Edward Katumba Wamala, Chief Commissioner of Uganda Scouts Association, planting a tree during the campaign to keep Uganda Green and Clean! Scroll on for photos showing the Undugu Family Scout Group training Scouts on how to recycle plastic bottles.