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Khady Fall Samb, 24 years
St-Louis, SenegalKhady is a 6th form student at the Cheikh Omar Foutiyou Tall High School in Senegal.
St-Louis is a former French colony and first capital city of Senegal. It was also the capital city of West Africa's French speaking countries. Because of its high urbanization process, many people are looking for a place to live. My father and I went on a tour through the city to record the situation of our environment. Domestic garbage is dumped and spread in the streets, alongside houses in an indescriptible way. Garbage and trash bring about health problems where they are not well treated or administered.
Despite some efforts in the community to deal with the situation inappropriate waste disposal is still an enormous problem. One of the consequences is that if we do not take care, household rubbish and waste will pollute our rivers. Garbage is filling places where trees should grow. In the suburbs of the city we notice that bush fires have destroyed the grass which animals eat. As a result, local wildlife is suffering.
Measures are taken to tackle these issues, for instance to reuse or recycle waste products and materials. There is a brigade for the protection the environment and the community works together to preserve parks, reserved areas and green squares. There are tree planting campaigns like the one we organised within our Connecting Classrooms programme in St-Louis. I am a friend of the environment because to save the environment is to protect our lives!
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