UNITRAV Nar-Phoo area cleaning programme concludes

Posted On - 25/06/2012

June 25 – Nar-Phoo-Himalyan Region  cleaning programme organised by UNITRAV has been concluded. As a part of campaign on Save Climate-Save Himalayas, GEFONT affiliate Union of Trekking, Travels, Rafting and Airlines Workers - Nepal (UNITRAV) had  launched the Nar-Phoo area cleaning campaign from June 05 ,2012 with slogan clean environment for sustainable development of Tourism –Social security for  workers benifit. For this purpose, UNITRAV had  formed 30 members team under the coordination of Cde. Shyam Kumar Rai, Vice president of UNITRAV central committee.

During these 20 days, the team organised interaction programmes with local hotel entrepreneurs, Workers, Students, Women groups and other community members in order to create environmental awareness among.

The team collected 13780 kilo  Garbage which they  buried and burned  in Nar-phoo. They also brought some rubbish in Kathmandu  which could be sent to  recycling.

With the purpose of sharing information, UNITRAV organised  a Press Meet programme on June 25 in Kathmandu. On the occasion, a documentary on Cleaning campaign was also shown .