The Rotary Club Sunrise took part in the International Coastal Cleanup 2011 by organizing a cleanup of the Simpson Bay Beach on Saturday September 17th.Together with Rotary Mid Isle, Rotaract Sunrise, the Sr. Regina Primary School, the Leopold Bell school along with Simpson bay residents they had over 55 volunteers.
A total of 22 trash bags weighing 196.5 kilos of trash was collected by the volunteers, each piece of trash was noted on the special Ocean Conservancy data card that will be given to local coordinator Sint Maarten PRIDE Foundation to be added to the 2011 trash index report.
PRIDE Foundation thanks the Rotary Sunrise for helping along with the 2011 Coastal Cleanup and engaging residents and youngsters in this worthwhile initiative.