1. Creating Awareness & Future Prevention Through Education.
We chose a school which is located in the kampong we chose i.e. Sekolah Ugama Pengiran Di Gadong Pengiran Haji Mohd Salleh. We made an agreement with the school to promote proper usage of rubbish facilities as well as introducing recycling system.The agreement and the handing over of the Poster.
We made a poster to promote proper usage of rubbish bins.2. Private Sector Support for Rubbish Facilities.
- We made an agreement with a private company which is specialized in providing free recycling rubbish bins as well as providing rubbish collection services.
- This step however is pending for approval because of an unavoidable matter.
- However negotiations has been made.
3. The Unintended Earth Day Campaign
- In the beginning before we did our actual actions, we interviewed the Penghulu who was in charge of the Villages we chose. During the interview we had a normal discussion and the Penghulu actually agreed on supporting our project. He did this verbally during the interview in which he promise to organise a cleaning campaign to reduce the rubbish in the river at the present as well as promoting certain strategies to prevent rubbish pollution in sungai Brunei in the future.
- This event occurred on Tuesday (21st April 2009). The event had a great support from the public especially the villagers as well as the private sectors and the government.
4. Creating Public Awareness Through Photography
- Realizing that education is a very important approach in creating awareness as well as preventing rubbish pollution from occurring in the future, a river cruise were conducted by a club which is under our management i.e. El Legua de Retratista Fotografia.
Bandar Seri Begawan From Sg. Brunei (Copyrighted)
- The trip were targetted to create awareness to the public on the importance of maintaining a clean and sustainable environment.
- Among the places and things being highlighted during the trip were rubbish pollutions in Sungai Brunei, The endangered Proboscis monkey, the historical places such as Jong Batu, Lumut Lunting and so on.
Istana Nurul Iman (copyrighted)
- From this river cruise we believe that it could at least help to make people realise how rubbish pollution could affect various aspects especially economic aspect seuch as tourism and environmentally such as the almost extinction of the proboscis monkey.
The ELDRF – Creating Awareness Through Photography (Copyrighted)