Claremont girl wants to spend her school holidays baking and cleaning beaches

NOT content with having put the spotlight on the dangers that plastic poses to owls, penguins, turtles and the environment, a big-hearted little Claremont girl wants to spend her school holidays baking cookies for police officers and cleaning beaches.

In May the Cape Times plastic collecting campaign .

When asked yesterday how the campaign progressing, the now 5-year-old Jenny shyly said:

“It’s going fine. We are also going to do a beach clean up. I’ve been making biscuits for my favourite police (officers) for Christmas. Other children can also recycle plastics and bring it to me.”

Kenyon(cor)’s mother Kath Kenyon(cor) replied: “Her project is still going strong, despite me having asked her if she wants to stop, she said ‘no mommy, I still want to help the owls and the turtles and the penguins too.

“She was aiming to get 100 cubic metres by Christmas, and we are already sitting on 105 cubic metres. If she can do something so small that makes a difference (to the environment and quality of life of animals), then everybody else can,” said Kenyon

The Owl Rescue Centre, for whom Jenny collects the recycled plastic, picks up and transports the plastic to its Hartebeespoort premises in Gauteng.

Kenyon said Jenny’s 12-year-old brother Matthew Kenyon(cor) had recently helped his boy scouts group in handing over 49 Christmas parcels to the Little Brinks NPO.

The organisation does emergency placements of abused and abandoned children.

Jenny began collecting plastic when she learnt at the Two Oceans Aquarium of a turtle that had eaten plastic

Matthew’s caring community activism had also been a source of inspiration for her.