In an endeavour to help keep the local beaches clean, Pozisa Nqenqa held a competition to see if local youth could turn beach rubbish into treasures.
Nqenqa, coordinator of the competition, invited various schools to be part of the initiative. Saldanha Primary and Louwville High School took part and the learners turned the beach rubbish into innovative art to urge beach-users to recycle.
The objectives of the project was to inform learners about sensitive marine species and to focus on marine pollution and the effect pollution has on the marine environment. Nqenqa says she also wanted to educate learners about the importance of oceans and the role they play to humans. “I wanted to ensure the learners realise the importance of recycling waste material to help reduce marine pollution in our local communities. An aim was to show learners that they can still have fun while keeping our beaches clean,” she explains.
Along with the art competition the learners picked up litter on Saldanha beach on Saturday, 17 August.
The judges of the competition were Ernie Malan CEO of Atlantic Royal, Kirshin Naidoo of Sea Harvest and Nqenqa herself.
She is currently a student at Cape Peninsula University of Technology.
