Help Up has been reviving Cape Town waterways by assembling a team to clear out litter all while providing meaningful employment to people in need.
Cape Town, South Africa (08 February 2021) – Help Up is an organisation that works to clean up problem areas that are littered or polluted by using pledges they receive from the public to pay people that need employment. The people are paid to work on these areas for a few hours. Help Up is managed by Georgia Mctaggart who gets stuck in with the people that help up.
The organisation has been incredibly successful as many see the value in cleaning the environment while providing meaningful employment to those in need.
Like many organisations, they were forced to close during the hard lockdowns and were restricted by not being able to do beach cleanups while laws prohibited them from doing so. Thankfully Georgia and her team are back at it and making sure to protect Cape Town’s waterways.
Their most recent cleanup has seen a tremendous amount of litter being collected from the waterways surrounding the Khayelitsha Wetlands Park and the Jakkalsvlei Canal.
“It’s been a busy weekend for our Help Up Franchises Are Free partners in Langa and Khayelitsha. 240 bags of rubbish collected at Jakkalsvlei Canal and Khayelitsha Wetlands Park this weekend. Our partners continue to inspire through their commitment to the river and wetlands environments by stopping trash from falling into the waterways that are home to so many of Cape Town’s precious bird species. Please welcome Vuyolwetho to our team of dedicated trash warriors who work tirelessly to prevent this ongoing tide of rubbish from becoming a trash tsunami! Enjoy the photos and if you would like to pledge towards our projects knowing that your funds go to improving the quality of life of the environment and of those committed to protecting it”
Georgia hopes to remind us all that protecting the environment starts at the grocery store. That we can all use our buying power to do more than we ever imagined.
You can help the organisation pay for more people to work in these areas by supporting Help Up, find them on Facebook here. They require just R50.00 to pay a person for 2-hours work. Not nearly a massive amount but just enough to make a massive difference. You can now donate directly to their crowdfund on BackaBuddy here.
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