The first joint staff training event of the Project from 06/12/2019 to 10/12/2019 was held in Portugal- Lisbon by Brigada do Mar. Three participants for each country where directly involved in the activity of beach cleaning.
The participants started with a day of beach clean up in the estuarium of the river Tejo in the city of Almada and Moita. During the three days the group was engaged in the beach cleaning coordinated by Brigada do Mar of 5 different Municipalities.
The practical activities started with the meeting of volunteers, a group composed by yiuth, children and people of every age, there were also some family, united by the same goal: cleaning, cleaning, cleaning!
An initial briefing gave to the volunteers knowledge about the material to collect and the ones to leave in the nature, warnings about dangerous substances that is possible to find in the beach and how to behave and also some indispensable organizational aspect about the work to do: how to collect the glass, where to put the bags full of rubbish and also instructions about the area to be cleaned.
Unbelievable how the volunteers were well motivated, not only at the starting of the activity but till the end, when the tiredness start to come out. To keep the mood high there was the energy of the people of Brigada do Mar, smiling, shouting encouraging words to pump the power to the volunteers. They used to move the volunteers, with a quad that was running on the sand from one side to another, to well manage the cleaning, to collect the volunteers together but also to give them some break to relax, have fun and collect energy again to actively start. When the work became harder the help of the music supported the volunteers.
Now, after having seen and having participated to the beach cleaning day organized in Lisbon, the goal of the Green Youth's Promoters is to transfer that powerful energy in their countries, implementing something similar in their territory, involving as many people as possible and giving them the right motivation.
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