Beach clean-ups, community visits, and compensation to fishers build environmental awareness in Nigeria

Around 400 people spread out across the coastline of a beach in the Lekki neighborhood of Nigeria’s commercial city, Lagos. Hands in gloves and some faces partly covered by disposable nose masks, they burrow garden rakes into the sandy shores of the beach, unearthing plastic bottle caps, PET bottles, flip-flops, syringes, styrofoam containers, toys, lollipop … Continue reading Beach clean-ups, community visits, and compensation to fishers build environmental awareness in Nigeria