NGOs' mission to see clean water by 2021

Kota Kinabalu: Five years on, a grouping of three NGOs, To Earth With Love (TEWL), is bullish about achieving their aim of seeing clean water in the State before their 10-year campaign ends in 2021.The three NGOs - Young Malaysians Movement Sabah, Sabah Environmental Protection Association and Sabah Banking Employees Union - are working hard to bring this to fruition.

TEWL Secretary Margaret Chin said the group had started their campaign in 2011 and now only have five years more to complete their mission.

"By 2021, all the waters in Sabah will be clean in which we can see fish, shrimps, drains, rivers, ponds and aquatic plants.

"These three NGOs have committed to treat water pollution and we hope our campaign will succeed.

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"But to achieve this target, we face lots of challenges, especially in terms of funding.

"Because we are NGOs, we do not have many manpower and our resources are also limited," she said.

Chin was speaking at an Environmental Awareness Workshop organised by the Sabah Kindergarten Association held in Wisma Damai, here, Saturday.

According to Chin, initially, they only treated waters but after three years, they discovered that if the soil is not clean, the water will never get cleaned.

"So, now we have also started to clean the soil and one of our programmes to clean soil is holding a sustainable gardening competition among secondary schools in Sabah.

"We already organised this competition two years ago and this year should be the third year and through this competition, we want to teach students to do natural gardening without chemicals.

"Why we go for secondary students is because when we said we are doing sustainable gardening, we want the students to do it themselves, the teacher only guides them and we only share the technology knowledge.

"And another reason why we do not start this competition from kindergarten and primary schools, is if you start from primary or kindergarten and they do not continue it in their secondary years, there will be a gap.

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"That is why we aim for the secondary students but we still create awareness about agriculture and the environment among the kindergarten and primary pupils as we want our next generation involved in agriculture," she said.

Chin said the workshop was one of the programmes which could help the young generation know more about the environment and agriculture.

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