Environmental Cleanups in Celebration of International December
4, 2009. Tomorrow, hundreds of local and foreign volunteers will
join in global celebrations for International Volunteer Day with
environmental cleanup activities in Marikina River and Manila
Bay. At 7am, an expected 300 volunteers will assemble at
Marikina Social Action Center for post-Ondoy cleanup. At 3pm,
200 volunteers will commence cleanup activities along Manila
Bay, at the Las Piñas-Parañaque Critical Habitat and Ecotourism
Area. International Volunteer Day on Saturday December 5, is on
its 24th year, having been established by the United Nations
General Assembly in 1985. Now a truly global event, thousands of
events are celebrated across the globe in tribute to the
thriving volunteer spirit. This year’s global theme for
International Volunteer Day is “Volunteering for our Planet”,
which is timely given our recent onslaught of tropical typhoons.
As such, the activities planned for the Philippines concentrate
on raising awareness of climat