10 days for the Mediterranean Challenge15.12.2020

The action is led by the Med Dialogue Fellow Cher Saadi and her organisation Better Libya, in partnership with the Municipality of Tripoli Center, Libyan Scouts, and local influencers. It is an online campaign to encourage people to take part in the challenge by going waste-free for 10 days and documenting their experiences. In addition to organizing several beach clean-ups event across all coastal cities in Libya. It targets 200 schools and university students, 50 Scouts, and 50 civil society actors.
The 10-day’s goal is to give people a chance to experience a cleaner, sustainable lifestyle, and directly show them the importance of combating pollution and preserving the environment for themselves and future generations. This action will also start a national dialogue about the dangers of climate change and push policymakers to consider it. The action hopes to engage a minimum of 1000 members of the public and leave a positive impetus among students towards protecting the environment.

• Conducting a social media campaign to promote the challenge.
• Launching an event including a 90-minute lecture about plastic pollution, climate change, and the Mediterranean Sea today, follow by a screening of an environmental film.
• Documenting The 10-day Challenge
• Organizing community beach cleanups with volunteers.

• https://www.facebook.com/betteraafrica/

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