On Friday 31 July, ASEZ and Faculty of College of Business have partnered in cleaning up the University of Johannesburg's (UJ) Auckland Park Kingsway (APK) campus in a Mandela Day event to kick-off a series of collaboration events between the two parties to address Climate Change Awareness and Environmental Preservation and create a cleaner and healthier environment.
A total of two-hundred participants that consisted of ASEZ volunteers, students and staff arrived to pick up litter and clean all around campus. ASEZ also exhibited panel displays to educate and provide detailed information on the impact of plastic pollution on the environment and human health, as well as practical measures to reduce plastic use in daily life. The campaign highlighted the importance of environmental stewardship and demonstrated how collective action can make a meaningful difference in our communities, says the NPO.
ASEZ, which is a global university student volunteer group and a registered society at UJ, has partnered with the faculty's School of Tourism Department earlier this year on climate change and environmental protection activities such as tree-planting in the department's regenerative category, and has now launched a further partnership with the broader faculty to create a bigger impact at UJ and in the community. A tree-planting is scheduled on Sunday, 23 August around Johannesburg, followed by graffiti-removal painting and various other activities, adds the NPO.
Professor Erica Derbyshire CA (SA), who is an Associate Professor at the Faculty's Department of Accountancy and its Community Engagement Programme Leader, thanked the ASEZ volunteers and expressed her excitement for a prosperous partnership. "Thank you so much to you ASEZ. We really appreciate your partnership and we are looking forward to a long and fruitful relationship."
This initiative was also hosted in July on campus to honour former President Nelson Mandela's legacy through service, while promoting climate consciousness and community engagement, in unity to make a lasting impact — one action at a time. ASEZ and the CBE encourages all students, staff and university at large to work together towards a cleaner, greener and more sustainable future.
ASEZ is a group of university student volunteers from the World Mission Society Church of God, who act to solve practical problems worldwide through various environmental and forest clean-ups, biodiversity conservation, forest fire prevention, and all sorts of campaigns in promoting environmental awareness to create a global forest ecosystem and combating climate change. It consists of four main pillars: Crime Prevention, Climate Change Responses, Community Service and Emergency Relief, concludes the NPO.
For more information, visit www.asezwao.org.
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