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Jalova Monthly Achievement Report May 2017

Parismina Beach Clean


Objective

Here at GVI Jalova we want to be able increase awareness of environmental issues amongst
our volunteers and the community. We take every opportunity we can to take our volunteers
to work with the community to help raise awareness.

Summary

This month staff and volunteers, together with people from the community worked together
to clean the beach in Parismina as part of a local fishing competition. This is an activity that
happens on an annual basis and forms and important part of the working partnership between
GVI and the community. All in all it was an enjoyable day, the beach was cleaned successfully
and everyone had an awesome time meeting each other.

Report

Working with the community is an incredibly important part of working in Jalova, Tortuguero
National Park. The park itself is very important to Tortuguero town and the surrounding area,
many people are employed in areas relating to protecting the Park or to tourism that the Park
brings to the area. As such the community are generally aware of environmental issues and
the importance of protected areas. We want to make sure that we do everything that we can
to maintain this level of environmental awareness in the area, and also extend the knowledge
and awareness that is already within the community. We also like to get involved with the
community as much as possible to let them know about our presence in the Park and what
work we are doing in the area.

Therefore, this month we took all of


our volunteers to visit Parismina for
a beach clean at their annual fishing
competition. Every year GVI
volunteers and staff come together
with the community for this event. It
is an integral part of community life
in Parismina and is well attended by
members of the local community.

In the break of the fishing


competition volunteers and the local
Photo: Parismina fishing team and GVI volunteers at the
fishermen worked together to clean
fishing competition and beach clean. the beach in Parismina. It was hard
work as there was a lot of rubbish
which had been washed up from
the ocean, but working together
made the task a lot easier!
Everyone got involved in the clean
and the beach was visibly cleaner
afterwards. Everyone was surprised
by the amount of rubbish we
managed to collect over the course
of the clean. We hope that it
showed our volunteers and the
locals how important it is to
dispose of waste in the correct
Photo: Volunteers were very proud to have participated in way, especially as it can wash up
the clean. Here they are pictured with the collected rubbish.
on beaches which are important to
nesting marine turtles.

After the beach clean was completed we were able to provide the Parismina Fishing Team with
video testimonials for their website showing how important our partnership with them is to
us. All in all it was a successful day and everyone had an enjoyable time.

Georgina Westwood, Volunteer Field Staff, Jalova Hub.

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