I do work sometimes!!!

Contrary to some people's beliefs, I do actually do some work out here!

Like the children's day, every month there is various community outreach programmes which Project Abroad organise.

This week we took part in a beach clean up. The conservation team do this weekly, but this time the community team got involved along with team puhket!

Around 64 volunteers and Projects Abroad staff were joined by the children of Baan Annamao school to clean up Baan Annamao beach.

We did a presentation on littering and recycling, which I had to do a little speech for, then headed off to the beach. Lots of the passers by joined in and by the end of it we had collected a ridiculous amount of rubbish, glass and even oil.

I'm not the most careful of people when it comes to the environment, and Hannah is constantly shouting at me for getting plastic bags. But seeing the amount of crap we picked up in just a couple of hours was really sad!!

These pics aren't mine, I didn't take my camera and you won't see any pics of me as Vishal (our social media and social secretary) manages to snap me at my most retarded.

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  1. Hannindrome18 February 2012 at 05:50

    Glad to see it's made you think about it! Love you Keeeeef

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