Picking up trash 2 km along the coastline of Xuan Thieu beach, Da Nang

6:00am, 6th September, 2023, the GreenViet Biodiversity Conservation Centre (GreenViet) cooperated with the Union of Lien Chieu District (Da Nang City) to organize the  “Clean up Xuan Thieu Beach” event.

The “Clean up Xuan Thieu beach” event is sponsored by Hexagon Design Joint Stock Company – Hexagon and the community of Da Nang city through the project “Establishing a funding foundation for biodiversity protection and environmental sustainability in Danang City, Vietnam” (in short, the “Conservation Fund” project), is led by GreenViet (Vietnam), co-funded by the Delegation of the European Union to Vietnam, and supported by the Gustav-Stresemann-Institut (GSI, Germany). 

This Clean Up event attracted about 100 Youth Union members living in the District to participate. Accordingly, in the morning, the volunteers cleaned up t, picked up trash 2 km along the coastline of Xuan Thieu beach (the junction of Nguyen Tat Thanh – Phan Van Dinh streets).

Mr. Phan Duy Cuong – Deputy Director of Central Branch, Representative of Hexagon – Hexagon Design Joint Stock Company shared: “In the mission of an enterprise, it is always towards social responsibility. All company members who participated in the garbage collection activity this morning felt very happy and excited to realize their personal responsibility in this. I hope to spread this more in the company in particular and the business community in the area, so in the future we will definitely plan to pay more attention to these activities of the society.”

Mr. Nguyen Thanh Binh- Secretary of the Executive Committee of Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union of Lien Chieu District said: “ We regularly organize activities to clean the environment of residential areas and the marine environment. Through these activities, we want to raise awareness for the people, Youth Union members about environmental protection. Besides, helping the environment clean Lien Chieu District to become “a clean and beautiful green environment, and turning Lien Chieu District into an Environmental District in the coming time.”

Duyen- FPT University said: This is my first time participating in an activity like this. Really, I feel very happy that I have contributed a small part of my energy to environmental protection activities in the city where I live.

Clean Up Xuan Thieu beach aims to raise awareness, actively change community habits in environmental protection, say no to plastic waste and plastic bags, as well as encourage the use of eco-friendly products schools of people, domestic and international tourists when visiting, and entertaining at Da Nang tourist beaches. To ensure urban beauty and environmental sanitation at the beaches of Nguyen Tat Thanh route.

About the financial support for Clean Up Xuan Thieu Beach:

This is financial support within the framework of the Conservation Fund Project worth 20 million VND. The objective of the Conservation Fund project is to establish a funding foundation from the business sector and the community to support finacial organizations/social groups and communities to join hands in multi-faceted conservation activities biodiversity and environmental protection. During the implementation process, the Conservation Fund Project has been and will award 15 financial supports (inc: the 9 financial supports are used in the budget of the European Union Delegation to Vietnam; and the 6 financial supports are used in the budget mobilized by the project from the business sector and the local community. The total current funding budget is more than 2.7 billion VND.

Check out some pictures of the Clean Up activities below: