CTC's Beach Busters/10, Nov 13/2010, 5pm-7pm

[Zeba Ahmad]

Beach Busters are back .. this time at Thiruvalluvar Nagar once more!

Join this weekend to

Spend some worthy hours cleaning the beach that Chennaiites love!
Inspire more people to care for their environment by example
Meet more positive minded people, make new friends, enjoy the fresh beach breeze, play some games !!

Inspire the next generation !!

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CTC's Beach Busters/10, Nov 13/2010, 5pm-7pm

Goal - a group of volunteers who enjoy walking by the beach over the weekend evening in the company of a few like minded friends, joining up together and spending a few fun hours cleaning up one beach along Chennai's coastal line, talking to residents and visitors to make them aware and having some fun at the beach!!

We are going out to hit the Thiruvalluvar Nagar beach for the clean-up this time, talk to the large crowd of beach visitors who turn up there and finally have some fun!

What we will do:
-- Pick up garbage
-- Talk to beach goers, involve them in the garbage busting
-- Have lots of FUN!!

This weeks' location - Thiruvalluvar Nagar beach
Landmark/Meetup point : Police Booth, Thiruvalluvar Nagar

Organizers -
Zeba - 9940107386 (cool...@gmail.com)
Peter - 9600004509 ( peter....@gmail.com )


Photo / video links to previous beach busters -
http://picasaweb.google.com/coolzebs/BB4#
http://picasaweb.google.com/coolzebs/BB5#
http://picasaweb.google.com/coolzebs/BB6#
http://picasaweb.google.com/coolzebs/BB7#
http://picasaweb.google.com/coolzebs/BB802#

Timing - 5 - 7 pm. Volunteers can join / leave at any time they like.

Agenda -

Assemble around 5 pm
Pick up a few garbage bags
Walk along the beach with some friends and filling up a few bags
Handing out the garbage bags to vendors and watching them encourage beach visitors to use the garbage bags.
Handing out garbage bags to beach visitors and encouraging them to place their trash in the bigger garbage bags.
Spread awareness to the beach visitors regarding usage of bins and segregation of waste.
Feel good inside because of the fresh air, making some new like minded friends and having contributed to making this world a cleaner place to live in

To carry -
Comfortable clothes, shoes
1 liter of water
Garbage bags and gloves will be distributed

Transportation -
Everyone can come directly to the beach by his/her own means. Let us know if you need help with transport. If more volunteers join from one area we would give the option to sync up.

Let's bring a change!

-- Organizing team

Name * Peter Van Geit

Email * peter....@gmail.com

Phone * 9600004509

Coming from * Anna Nagar, Adyar, ...

Coming by * If more volunteers join from one area we would give the option to sync up and share transport

• Car
• Bike
• Public transport

Why I am doing this?

Optional - I would be interested to sponsor Looking at companies here to support our awareness campaign

• Default option - none (volunteers)
• Garbage bin
• Garbage bags, gloves
• Do not pollute banners
• Other:

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[Zeba Ahmad]

23 registrants so far!

Come on, others! It will be fun and a worthwhile way of spending two hours of your weekend :)

Route map:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=12.981517,80.261693&spn=0.023209,0.027595&z=15&msid=100795895206195398252.000487583be5140cf2cc7

Landmark/Meetup point : Police Booth, Thiruvalluvar Nagar

Here is our current list of participants.

Suresh Babu
Krishna
Divya
Javed
kamalakannan
Sailaja Nori
Raja A
raj
Vijay Arumugam
gayathri iyer
R. Malar Manian
Vinoth Kumar . K
K Vijay Kumar
Rajesh
Santhosh K Subramanian
Sathyanarayan L
R.SATHISH KUM\AR
GAJENDRAKUMAR P
anish thomas
Nivya S
Asif

Regards,
Zeba

[Zeba Ahmad]

Saturday was another successful beach buster. Around 30 members from CTC and many more from the public, inspired by our initiative, joined in to collect around 30 bags of garbage from Thiruvanmiyur beach

Cleaning the trail of plastics washed ashore after the cyclone .. Pulling in people from the beach crowd to join us ...

           

Some pics here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/107164200719505929371/BB#

Participants, please do share your feedback, pics and experience in here:
http://chennai-trekking-club.32436.n3.nabble.com/Beach-Busters-10-Thiruvanmiyur-Nov-13-td1902666.html#a1902666

Let's bring a change!

Zeba