The Coca-Cola Foundation has awarded grants to the Africa Clean Up Initiative, pioneers of the famous Recycles Pay and Clean-Up Naija project. This is in line with Coca-Cola’s commitment to fostering a World Without Waste, as these grants are aimed at bolstering efforts to reduce waste created by food and beverage packaging waste and other non-biodegradable substances.
African Clean-up Initiative (ACI), a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), on Wednesday 29th January 2020, had her first cleanup exercise for the year in collaboration with The U.S. embassy in Lagos to clean-up the consulate environs and it was tagged Cleanup Crescent
Being committed to the work we do, the African Cleanup Initiative today went to ISRINA schools to conduct its first pickup exercise of Recyclables. Stepping into the compound where the school was sited one would think it was a festival of plastics as parents trooped out en masse with their recyclables ranging from PET [plastics], Sachets, cans and tins.
It was a cold and rainy day as the team from the African Cleanup Initiative took the RecyclesPay Educational Project to the Makoko Kingdom Royalty Academy.
The now popular RecyclesPay project was officially introduced to A-Z All phase Academy which is the second school to adopt the recycles pay initiative.
About 120 volunteers participated at the 19th clean up exercise of the African Clean Up Initiative held at Jakande Gate, Oke Afa, Ejigbo Local Council Development Area.The sanitation exercise which was supported by the ACT Foundation was themed : Clean up Jakande, had LAWMA, Red Cross Society, Greenhill Recycling, Environmental Lagos and Estate Youth Platform representatives joining hands to get a great result.
Known for initiating environmental innovations, the Chief Environmental Officer of African Clean-up Initiative (ACI), Mr. Alex Akhigbe has introduced RecyclesPay, an eco-educational project that addresses the issue of payment delay of school fees in low income schools.
About six hundred treated mosquito nets were distributed to residents of Mosquito Village in Ajegunle, Lagos to mark the 2019 World Malaria Day. The sensitization program, which was organised with the collaboration of African Cleanup Initiative (ACI) and Lifecare Partners, Wema Bank, said donation of nets to resident was done to end the surge of malaria in the community.
Africa Clean-up Conference (ACC) is an international conference powered by African Clean Up Initiative aimed to bring together civic leaders, non-governmental organizations, government agencies, environmental activists and students across Africa and the globe to share ideas, network, and proffer solutions to environmental challenges with the aim of fast tracking the achievement of the sustainable
development goals and raising environmentally responsible citizens across Africa.
Saturday, 9th February 2019, African Clean-Up Initiative (ACI) held her 16th sanitation exercise which is her first for the year 2019. She began the Clean-Up Nigeria Project since 2010.
