The first Eco action of our LEISURE&CHINESE Team

Cleaning up the area between Vadu Soresti and Pruneni -  - Stream + Road on 9th May c.y.

The project "Promoting rural tourism and environment protection - LEISURE&CHINESE"

The "junior" heroes of this action were a group of children in second grade from the "Constantin Popescu" school in Fundeni (village pertaining also to Zarnesti commune, same as Vadu Soresti) and a group of highschool students from "Mihai Eminescu" College in Buzau.

The "seniors" are two professors and one teacher from the above mentioned schools, mister mayor, mister vice-mayor and mister forester who is a counselor of the Zarnesti commune's townhall. 

We extend our warmest thanks to both categories of participants and supporters and also to the mayor's office. 

The action ended with the mayor's office providing trilingual diplomas (Romanian, French and English) of voluntary work to the participants, they were handed out by mister vice-mayor. 

The mayor's office (in particular mister vice-mayor and mister forester) handled the transportation of the sorted waste directly to the collection facility, and they also supplied the gloves and waste bags. It was also the mayor's office that supplied the local school bus for bringing the children from Buzau and then back. 

In about 4 hours we gathered, besides unrecyclable waste, 53kg of PETs and 2kg of aluminum cans, for which we got 37 lei= app.9.5$=app.8.5euro, money which will go into our NGO's fund (created later this month). 

After about one month, when I walked the trail with Stefi and Cristiana (I talked about this in our earlier post), at the entrance of the forest Nania from Pruneni we found ONLY ONE PET. We are not sure if this is the effect of our action, but still, it is good! :-) 

The highschool team on buss en route to Vadu Soresti

The little ones work in the stream area before the highschool students arrive

Here come the highschool group

Next to us life goes on as usual :-)

Scenery of a Romanian hallmark - shepherd with his sheepfold of  sheep and goats

The highschoolers also started working...

 Even the horses wondered about our action: "What are the two-legged ones up to?"

Nania forest in all its splendor

 Mister teacher accompanies us to the forest

 Nania forest seen from Pruneni village

 At the entrance to Nania forest from Pruneni - our "school in the woods" spot

The handing in of the diplomas is up next

Everyone: Cheeeese! or, in Chinese, 茄子qiezi = eggplants ;-)

To the left- mister teacher, to the right mister vice-mayor

Here are some photos :-)

 Stefi receives her volunteer diploma

 Ana, the little hero who stayed till the end, until we collected the bags

Ion, the youngest member of our NGO

 Mister teacher receives his volunteer diploma

 Mrs. teacher receives her volunteer diploma

Hurraaaay!!!!!

Mister vice-mayor transports 2 bags of waste with his own car

 Mister forester and Ana help with collecting the bags

 There were sour cherry stones in the PET...

Selling the PETs and the cans

Here comes the tractor and tow sent by the mayor's office in Zarnesti commune

 At the waste recycling facility: weighing the bags

 53kg of PETs and 2kg of aluminum cans; the later ones, due to their too small quantity, were noted as having 3kg 

Receipt 

The next action of this type will be in July and it will have as goal cleaning up the Calnau brook, for which we will ask for support from the mayor's office in Racoviteni commune, our neighbour. Who wants to join us? 

See you soon!

The LEISURE&CHINESE Team