Although our project “Youth for a Clean Adriatic”, which has been officially supported by BeMed and the Prince Albert II Foundation of Monaco for the last three years, has been officially completed, we will continue to work on this project through self-financing or other donations. We believe that our sea deserves this project to remain sustainable. See you soon on a new action on the field.
By cleaning the coast, Bigova marked the International Day of Coast Cleaning! ?
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The NGO Naša akcija together with a team of students from the Arcadia school and the locals of Bigova today marked the International Day of Cleaning the Coast of this small fishing village. With the team work of participants and locals who met for the first time, and enthusiastically cooperated, 40 bags of 120 liters of waste were collected, of course most of the plastic packaging, a total of 225 kg!
The International Clean Coast Day is organized by @ zero.waste.montenegro in cooperation with @nvo_nasa_akcija, and under the auspices of the EU Delegation to Montenegro, the Ministry of Ecology, Urbanism and Spatial Planning, the EU Info Center, Beyond Plastic, the MED Association and the Prince Albert II Foundation, through project “Youth for a clean Adriatic”. At the local level, as every year so far, the action is supported by the Tourist Organization of Kotor and the Utility Company Kotor.
“We thank everyone who came out to meet us and helped us to mark this day, and leave this wonderful place for swimming in a beautiful condition. We appeal to the Utility Company Kotor to return the container that was in this location until 2019 and thus perhaps motivate bathers and other visitors to dispose of waste at an appropriate location. ” says the Organizational Manager of the NGO Naša akcija Vuk Koljenšić.
MSJA – Dr. Martin Schneider-Jacoby within the project “Ulcinj coast without plastic”, funded by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit – GIZ, organized a three-day event called “REuse_REduce_REcycle”, and consisted of presentations, workshops and exhibitions of sculptures .
The idea of the final activity on this project is the desire to together with beach tenants (Pacha Kitesurf Beach, Dolcinium Kitesurf Beach, Ka´banya Kitesurf Beach) draw the attention of all beach users to the impact of plastic on the environment with a focus on the coast, and to more actively involve all stakeholders to reduce the use of plastics in order to completely eliminate plastics and soon Ulcinj coast becomes Plastic free. The exhibition contains 6 sculptures and 4 installations created by young activists of the NGO Our Action with the active participation of MSJA volunteers and all participants in this event. The opening ceremony of the exhibition “Under the clear sky” was attended by the mayor of Ulcinj, Mr. Aleksnadar Dabovic, who also officially opened this exhibition, as well as representatives of the media and NGO sector and citizens who showed support for this project. The exhibits we set up at Pacha Surf Beach were already accompanied by the enthusiasm and participation of visitors on the day of the set-up. The sculptures will be on display at PachaSurf Beach until August 23, 2021.
Organization and activities in the three-day camp for young NGOs Our action is supported by the European endowment for democracy and Prince Albert II from Monaco / BeMed Foundation through the project “Youth for a Clean Adriatic”. New generations of young people from Kotor, Podgorica, Cetinje and Tivat, in addition to the theme of this three-day event, learned how the setting and life in the camp and nature works.
Tonight, the NGO Naša akcija was in charge of setting up the #kotorskifestivalapozoristazadjecu and its installations on Trg od kulture. A few more tomorrow and done. This activity is realized under the auspices of the Tourist Organization of Tivat and part of the installation is supported through the project Youth for a Clean Adriatic. We thank the Voluntary Fire Brigade Tivat for help.
Through the final program of the project “Youth for a Clean Adriatic” funded by BeMed and the Prince Albert II Foundation of Monaco and under the auspices of the Municipality of Kotor, the NGO Naša akcija has held workshops to repair, make and set up installations for the Kotor Children’s Theater Festival. Using recyclable materials with a focus on plastics, young creatives had the opportunity to show off their skills and then ennoble public spaces with their installations. Particular interest was shown for a small open-air library and a plastic dress called “New Fashion”, because plastic seems to be the new fashion of this era. We invite all citizens to donate books for the small open-air library, which is currently located on the cinema market, and which will find its new, long-term location after the festival.
The NGO Naša akcija, as part of the Kotor Children’s Theater Festival, has organized screenings of open-air documentary environmental films for young people in the garden of the Cultural Center “Nikola Đurkovic” in Kotor. Screenings included films on the topic of plastic sea pollution and other topics relevant to this age, with subsequent discussion with speakers selected by the organizers. Eco film evenings are part of the Youth Stage that precedes the opening of the Kotor Children’s Theater Festival every year, and are supported by BeMed and the Prince Albert II Foundation of Monaco through the “Youth for a Clean Adriatic” project.
Last weekend the NGO Naša akcija held its traditional spring eco camp for young people. This year we joined our friends behind the organization MSJA – Dr. Martin Schneider-Jacoby Association and the project “Coast of Ulcinj without plastic” funded by GIZ, by holding two separate cleaning actions and planting actions. In addition, a new team of young people learned to set up and live in the camp, set up tents, with workshops on ecology as well as the need to protect and the role of sand dunes.
This activity was supported through the project “Advancing the Resolute and Tangible
Environ-mental Implementation of Standards (ARTEMIS) ”, with financial support from the Balkan Trust for Democracy, a project of the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Belgrade, and a project“ Youth for a Clean Adriatic ”supported by BeMed and the Prince Albert II Foundation of Monaco.
A hard-working team of young people on this day with a gloomy prognosis decided to do something valuable. Volunteers of the NGO Naša akcija, which was joined by the Youth Team Tivat and members of the Association for the Research of Marine Mammals, cleaned the rest of Buljarica, which we did not complete on December 1 in the first phase. After the action, there was time for a very diverse team of young people from Podgorica, Danilovgrad, Cetinje, Kotor and Tivat to socialize and get to know each other, talk and plan the next activities.
This activity was supported through the project “Advancing the Resolute and Tangible
Environ-mental Implementation of Standards (ARTEMIS) ”, with financial support from the Balkan Trust for Democracy, a project of the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Belgrade, and the project“ Youth for a Clean Adriatic ”supported by BeMed and the Prince Albert II Foundation of Monaco.
On Sunday, May 9, organized by the Municipality of Tivat and the NGO Naša akcija, an action was held to clean the rocky shore of Pržno Bay and the Pržno-Grabovac hiking trail. Over 80 volunteers participated in the action in three phases. The first phase The utility company Tivat started clearing the hiking trail from Pržno to Grabovac, the second phase Protection services and DVD companies from Tivat started cleaning the trail from Grabovac to lower. The third phase was the cleaning of the left and right branches of Pržno Bay, with a focus on the rocky shore and shrubs where there was a lot of waste caused by the sea. The activities were led by young volunteers of the NGO Naša akcija, joined by the Youth Team Tivat, the Association for Marine Mammal Research from Radovići, and the Society for Education and Development INESCA. 5m3 of waste was collected.
In addition to this environmental activity, the action also contained a humanitarian element. Namely, for the needs of the Facebook initiative “Our little is crucial to someone”, the volunteers collected donations for the auction, the funds of which will be sent to the treatment of children in the organization Be Human.
We truly thank all the participants who contributed to this activity with donations and work, and with so much positivism.
This activity was supported through the project “Advancing the Resolute and Tangible
Environ-mental Implementation of Standards (ARTEMIS) ”, with financial support from the Balkan Trust for Democracy, a project of the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Belgrade, and a project“ Youth for a Clean Adriatic ”supported by BeMed and the Prince Albert II Foundation of Monaco.
At the invitation of local NGO organizations, NGO Our action today responded to the invitation of local organizations from Virpazar and participated in the action of cleaning the Skadar lake, especially because we ourselves are focused on cleaning the shores of the sea and lakes through various projects.
This action was organized by: BrodMilica, Regional Rural Development Standing Working Group, KonobaBadanj, OcistiMe, MontagnaTravel, and UndiscoveredMontenegro, and the Youth Team Tivat and Knightsbridge School from Tivat joined.
This activity was supported through the project “Advancing the Resolute and Tangible
Environ-mental Implementation of Standards (ARTEMIS) ”, with financial support from the Balkans
Trust for Democracy, the German Marshall Fund project of the United States and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Belgrade, and the “Youth for a Clean Adriatic” project supported by BeMed and the Prince Albert II Foundation of Monaco.