Youth Engagement Drive for Clean & Green Pakistan Campaign

Youth Engagement Drive for
Clean & Green Pakistan Campaign
Organized by : Students & Faculty Members of Arts & Media Department,
Foundation University Rawalpindi Campus
in collaboration of Clean & Green Campaign Volunteers (CGVC)
Thursday 22 Nov, 2018 @ FURC
Presented Dr. Shoaib Ahmed

Program
• Students to be seated : 11:45 am
• Arrival of CGCV Guest : 11:55 am
• Presentation by CGCV : 12:00 pm
• Question Answers : 12:20 pm
• Briefing on CGCV Activities : 12:20 pm
• Distribution of Volunteer Cards : 12:30 pm
• Closing Remarks by HoD (A&M) : 12:35 pm
• Departure of Guests : 12:40 pm

CLEAN AND GREEN PAKISTAN
Students should lead the campaign for safe future of the country.
Prime Miniter Imran Khan Speaking on the occasion of Launching of Clean & Green Dirve on 13 Oct, 2018

A nationwide Clean Green Pakistan Campaign
Agenda:
• Making Pakistan pollution free and countering
the effects of climate change.
• We need to save the planet for our future
generations.
• We need to conserve water, protect our
environment and make the land clean for
human living.

Youth Engagement Drive for Clean
& Green Pakistan Campaign by
Dr. Shoaib Ahmed
Head of Arts & Media Department
Foundation University Islamabad
(Rawalpindi Campus)

Our Mission
We believe that getting
young people engaged and
invested in the environment
and in their communities is
an essential element of
community resilience.

Our Expectation
• Youth must learn the critical skills necessary
for supporting community and integrating
civic action into their educational
experiences.
• Develop an implementation plan that can be
put into action immediately In order to
achieve CLEAN & GREEN PAKISTAN objective.

HOW YOUTH AMBASSADOR CAN CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS A
CLEANER AND GREENER ENVIRONMENT?
• By kicking off the process from their educational institutions,
1. the Youth Ambassadors should sensitize people to myriad
health related problems caused by heaps of garbage in big
cities. They in fact will have to become trendsetter and role
model for this great cause by practically involving
themselves in plantation and cleanliness.

2. Youth Ambassadors can spread knowledge among other
students about the importance of green environment and
ways to keep the environment healthy and green through
school teaching programs, cleaning campaigns, running
programs, workshops, campaigns since spreading knowledge
among student means disseminating awareness among their
friends, relatives and among the whole community.
Awareness among the probable hit community is the best
way to combat climate change and other environmental
issues.

3. To promote the attractiveness of green and
healthy environment Youth Ambassadors can
participate in various tree plantation and
cleanliness programs inside their institutions and in
their society.

4. Youth Ambassadors can use their learned knowledge
about agriculture, forestry, veterinary for the resource
allocation and for the proper management of renewable
natural resources with the reduction of the use of non-
renewable natural resources and thus saving energy

5. Youth Ambassadors interventions regarding Health included but
not limited to;
– Improving basic idea about sanitation and primary health
– Strengthening health knowledge among students
– Making health awareness pamphlet
– Arranging dustbins to improve sanitation.
– Arranging education to women and old people about cleanliness,
roadside plantation and sanitation.

6. Staging Rally to protect wildlife
7. By Gardening to promote greenery
8. By launching Anti-plastic movement

Contemporary Issues
&
Challenges
Drafted by Mohammad Abdul Wahab

SPREADING LITTER

SPREADING LITTER
• Litterers are heavily fined in civilized countries.
• Rwanda, an East African country is a case study in terms of maintaining
high level of cleanliness by imposing fines and penalties to violators.
• Pakistan is in need of formulating laws against litterers. We need to
impose fines on all those who litter outside homes, in parks, out of cars
or at any other places like markets and picnic spots.
• Our great touristic attractions including Lake Saif ul Mulook, Murree,
Ayubia, Nathia Gali, Naran, Kaghan, Kalam, beaches in Karachi are
presenting too ugly look

SPREADING LITTER IS UNACCEPTABLE IN
CIVILIZED WORLD
• Throwing litter outside home either on ramp, lawn, street
or road is too bad and ugly
• Throwing a wrapper, an empty bag, a cigarette pack, etc.
out of a moving car makes our roads dirty and ugly
• Littering our parks and gardens with empty lunch boxes,
juice packs, bottles, fruit peels, peanut coverings, all types
of wrappers, makes them dirty and unclean
• Cleaning costs of every nook and corner are too high.

USING DUSTBINS FOR DISPOSING OFF LITTER
Human beings by nature like cleanliness. They like neat and
tidy surroundings. If litter is spread around, it not only gives
an untidy and ugly look but poses hazard to health. Dustbins
are the best places for litter. Every type of litter should be
thrown in to dustbins which should be emptied regularly.

Punjab Governor House

A scene from a side of the Rawal Lake

A scene from Clifton-Karachi

Penalties for litterers

Penalties

Littering is serious

Using dust bins

RESPECTI NG AND HELPING CLEANERS
• Cleaning isn’t the work of any particular community. Islam asks muslims
to keep themselves and their surroundings clean. Those who clean our
streets, markets, offices, schools and picnic spots deserve our respect,
help and care and we should never look down upon them. Treating them
with respect and dignity is the minimum we can do
• Our streets and markets provide a disgusting look if they are not cleaned
on a single day. Hence, we should realize that without cleaners, our life
will become hell
• Speaking to the cleaners politely and gently, handing them over a glass
of cold or hot drink or any eatable in peak summer or winter will not
only encourage them but that act of kindness will be highly rewarded by
Allah Almighty as well

Respecting and helping cleaners

LITTER BURNING IS A BIG THREAT

LITTER BURNING IS A BIG THREAT
• Litter burning rampant in our society is too dangerous and
suicidal
• We think burning is the only way to dispose off litter
which is wrong
• Burning litter produces unwanted poisonous gases which
ultimately threaten human existence and cause depletion
of ozone layer exposing living beings to the dangerous
rays of the sun
• Litter if buried or covered in large pits decomposes in to
fertilizer vital for plants

Crops wastage burning in India causes SMOG in Pakistan

Imagine the high temperatures and level of carbon
dioxide and other gases in air

What will happen to ozone layer

WATER IS LIFE

WATER IS LIFE AND WATER WASTAGE IS A
CRIME AS WELL AS A SIN
• We give no value to water because so far we had enough of it
• Our population had mushroom growth during the last 20 years
and we are increasing at dangerous fast speed.
• Our resources haven’t grown with that speed and we gave no
attention to building water reservoirs. And believe me water is
getting scarce day by day.
• We need to save water while brushing teeth, taking shower,
washing our car or bike, watering plants, etc. A mug of water
could suffice while brushing teeth but we spend equal to a bucket
because our tap remains open. Instead of a bucket, with pipe we
end up using water equal to 40 or 50 buckets for washing a car.

WATER IS LIFE
• We can’t stop using water but we can stop wasting it. Almost
everyone is busy in digging down for a tube well which is
decreasing the level of underground water. This is precious
water which needs to be used for other important usage
• New dams are a Must but the biggest Must is changing our
habit of wasting water
• We don’t have enough water for growing grains, fruits and
vegetables

No life without water

World Water Day 22nd March Water is
Life

Wasting water while brushing teeth

Instead of a bucket, 50 to 60 buckets are
wasted

German Ambassador Martin Kobler tells
us how to wash a car

HOT FOOD IN PLASTIC BAGS

HOT FOOD IN PLASTIC BAGS IS CANCEROUS
• Hot food items like tea, milk, curries, rice, etc. sold in polythene
bags is one of the major causes of growing cancer these days in
Pakistan.
• Most of us go to buy halwa puri, chana, curries and bring them in
plastic shoppers instead of taking hotpots and steel utensils with
us. Even boiling tea is given in plastic shopping bags. We used to
take a cloth for buying roti 20 years ago but now we bring rotis in
newspapers and plastic bags

HOT FOOD
• Even the Saver food company sells its take away hot Pulao in
plastic shopping bags or polythene type white boxes which isn’t
hard plastic and likely to melt under high temperatures. Whereas if
you buy take away from Howdy, it provides you hot food in
aluminum foil boxes which are heat resistant and recommended
for hot food internationally
• To save from cancer, we need to refuse any hot food item in
polythene bags and non aluminum foil containers

Hot tea in plastic causes cancer

Hot curries in plastic bags are deadly

Wrong box for hot rice

Right boxes for hot rice and curry

SAY NO TO PLASTIC BAGS

SAY NO TO PLASTIC BAGS
• We should carry cloth bags for shopping. The
plastic shopping bags have choked our sewerage
system and causing serious pollution
• A country like Rwanda in East Africa banned
plastic shopping bags in 2006
• If at all unavoidable, we should turn to bio
degradable plastic bags which decompose
naturally in the environment

Every rider on a motorbike must wear a
helmet

Wearing seat belt saves from fatal injuries

Case Study of
Friends of Kachnar Park (FKP)

Friends of Kachnar Park
• The community conscious of keeping its environment clean,
took up the initiative of maintenance and upkeep of Kachnar
Park which was in a state of mess and appeared abandoned
by the development authority
• A group of more than forty volunteers are professionals
who spend time, energy and money to keep the park clean
and beautiful
• The objective is a clean and beautiful well maintained park
which caters to the physical and aesthetical needs of the
area residents
• The dream is to see Pakistanis taking ownership of their
areas and converting them to dreamlands on the model of
Kachnar Park Drafted by Mohammad Abdul Wahab

Involvement of Community
In a span of one year:
• The group has planted more than 3000 plants both flowers and fruits
• Collected more than 3000 bags of litter (80 litre size)
• Arranged special irrigation system for watering plants
• Organized Spring festival, Independence day anniversary and Pull-Ups
day involving community
• Installed, maintained and repaired dustbins, canopies, benches, painted
rusted structures, etc.
• Voluntary monthly and project specific contributions by the group
members keep the wheel moving

FKP’s Coverage by T.V. Channels
through below given links
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzo6KJFMSP
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT5bLWqCRp
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6jUc1AeOb
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttEjwv3z0Ws

Senior Most FKP busy in numbering trees for Log book

FKPs gathering leaves for Compost

FKP Lady Warriors busy in cleaning as well
as gathering leaves

One of the senior FKPs motoring around
Chingchi for watering plants

Collecting litter and dumping in the dustbin
bought and installed by FKPs

Children involved in cleaning their park

Litter buckets painted and ready to be
fixed

Early Bird Risers training young cyclists in Kachnar
Park

Painting activity in Spring Festival

FKPs involving young lot in cleaning

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