Volunteers

The seven trainees, who arrived in Samoa in February and just completed an 11-week pre-service training, work at the invitation of the Ministry of Education, Sports, and Culture (MESC) to support English literacy in primary schools throughout the country.

Their 11-week community-based training focused on literacy; culture; intercultural diversity, equity, and inclusion; and the Samoan language.

Over 200 people in Samoa took part in the global activity which is now in its 30th year of operation.  Volunteers cleaned up around 1,030 kg’s of rubbish from the Gasegase River, and 135 kg’s of rubbish from the Apia Harbour, all of which was sorted and sent to the recyclers and the landfill.

Last year, more than 500,000 people around the world picked up more than 7 million kilogrammes of rubbish along more than 20,000 kilometers of coastline.