Beach cleaning campaign kicks off on Nov 1 under eyes of diving team
Plastic waste, fish nets targeted: Al-Ansari
KUWAIT CITY, Oct 30: The Public Authority for Youth in embarking on a national campaign to clean the beaches from the beginning of next November and will continue until February 2023 and will be supervised by the Kuwaiti diving team, reports Al-Rai daily.
Director of the Voluntary Work Department at the authority, Waleed Al-Ansari, said in a press statement, Saturday, the campaign includes cleaning the coastal areas of Kuwait by volunteers to remove a lot of plastic waste and neglected fishing nets.
Al-Ansari added that this national campaign is a unique opportunity for voluntary work in the State of Kuwait and the availability of voluntary opportunities for Kuwaiti youth wishing to contribute to voluntary environmental campaigns.
He called on young volunteers wishing to participate in the campaign to register on the authority’s website through the “Our Hands” portal.
He also called on government schools at the primary stage to participate in the campaign to enrich the cultural and environmental awareness of school students.
Program
For his part, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Environmental Volunteer Foundation, Walid Al-Fadhel, said the diving team has prepared an interesting cultural program to be presented to the participating school students and within field and practical roles to consolidate the love of volunteer work and active participation.
Al-Fadhel explained that this initiative is among the many projects undertaken by the team to protect the marine environment, secure the shipping lanes and save marine life through operations represented in the removal of waste such as discarded fishing nets, rubble, plastic waste, wood, bottles and tires, due to the pollution they cause to the marine environment, danger to sea-goers and an obstacle to the navigational lanes.
He stated that the campaign seeks to spread environmental awareness to preserve natural wealth through mobile awareness campaigns that contribute to raising environmental awareness of the community in general.
He indicated that the initiative of the National Project for the Protection of the Kuwaiti Marine Environment is continuing to clean Kuwaiti beaches and islands in order to remove these harmful wastes and educate sea-goers and fishermen about the need to take care of the marine environment.
2 services launched: Youssef Kazem, the spokesman for the unified government electronic services application “Sahel” announced the Ministry of Health has launched two new services from the General Medical Council, reports Al-Qabas daily.
Kazem explained that the two new services are represented in the “medical examination service for appointments” and “the service of submitting a request to a medical committee”, which are now available to users of the application through the list of “services” of the Ministry of Health, so that a citizen can submit a medical examination request for new appointees directly through the “Sahel” application as well as submit a request for a medical committee based on a letter from the employer or the result of the medical committee.
Kazem praised the continuous efforts of the Ministry of Health to add new electronic services to users through the easy application, which contributes to enhancing the users’ experience of the application in an easier and more flexible manner.