Clean-Up Campaign In Yaounde: UK High Commission, Youths Clear Gutters

Saturday, March 27, 2021 was an extraordinary day around the Nkolbission neighbourhood in Yaounde. Precisely at the gutters around the Meec junction, the acting Deputy British High Commissioner to Cameroon, Adrian Lee Nigel Holmes was seen underneath the bridge at that intersection picking plastic waste and other refuse, which usually block water passage during heavy rainfall. He was accompanying youths of Cameroon, especially those of the Local Youth Corner Cameroon (LOYOC) Association, in a clean-up campaign, as a grande finale in a project “Building Community Resilience to Climate Change in Cameroon." The action marked the end of a sensitisation campaign effort that had been going on in recent weeks targeting communities and other organisations in the domains of preserving the environment and climate change.  

Amidst all the mess, Adrian Lee Nigel Holmes said climate change is very important and the British government is looking forward to working with the government of Cameroon ahead of the COP26 Climate Change Summit in Glasgow, UK come November this year. He underscored that the clean-up campaign is all about the grassroots and the pivotal role young people can play in sensitising their community about climate change. He explained that cleaning up such a gutter has immediate benefits as well as bringing the community together to focus on issues of the environment and climate change.