As the effects climate change are making themselves increasingly known, many are taking matters into their own hands to better their local environment. For example, concerns over the dumping of expired food and medical waste in a village in Beletweyn, Somalia have spurred a local volunteer youth group to take action to clean up the area.
The group leader, Ahmed Mohamed Yusuf, told Radio Ergo that they were cleaning three areas of Bundaweyne village, where possibly contaminated food had been dumped. The 12-member group hired five people to help them collect and burn the garbage, using their own funds to pay $50 a day to the workers. They also hired a tuk-tuk taxi fitted with loudspeakers to inform the residents about the risks of consuming expired food from the dump.
Read more about this incredible youth-led effort here.