Since its registration, Veshisaafu NGO has been committed to giving away free plants to various institutions, schools, offices, and households. Our ongoing program has successfully gifted 4,500 plants and trees, aiming to inspire our community to adopt environmentally friendly habits and contribute to greening the island. Our work is not easy. We walk through neighborhoods, […]
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Since 2019, we have been collecting plastic bottles from various beaches and locations. While our efforts initially felt futile—since the bottles we collected were sent to the Waste Management Company (WAMCO) by the council to be trashed to the dump sites just outside the city limits—we are now thrilled to announce that all the bottles
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Organizing cleaning events with other institutions and community is something we always enjoy and look forward to cherishing. Funavau is a protected area where people used to dump plastics and other waste items and it was one of our aim to clean this area.
Coral festival was a great event organized by Maldives Coral Institute in Addu City for three days and our NGO was invited to open a stall there to show what we do to save our environment. This was an opportunity to meet other NGOs and professional scholars to learn more about related topics and ideas.
From our history books, we find during the Second World War ”bandahjehun”, the people of Addu City was not starved to death because of breadfruit trees. Breadfruit trees play a huge role in Addu City from early years to now. In every household back yard were one or two breadfruit trees which supply shade, fruits,
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Living in a clean, safe environment makes our life better, and healthier and to keep environment clean we must take responsibilities and do our part. On World Cleaning Day Veshisaafu organized a cleaning event with the help of the Nature Park and cleaned the biosphere reserved area “Veherafanna” and collected 4000 plastic bottles. The energetic
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This year’s Theme was “Only One Earth” and it will focus on the need to live sustainably with nature. On World Environment Day 2022, our NGO organized a cleaning up event jointly with Dhiraagu, Policemv, Sharafuhdhin school, Adducity council, Hithadhoo school, MRCAAddu branch, Cocacola Adducity Branch. The area we cleaned was Hithadhoo Funavau. Among the
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All the palm trees in these uninhabited islands are very old and now started falling and dying. The beautiful vista we used see from a distance in the past is no more there. These islands were well looked after by our ancestors. “Varuvaa-ah dheefa othee maa, rah balahahtaa meehaa kaashi valhulaa, duvasvee ruhthah kan’daa aa
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So proud to see that this tree got a new life. It was pulled out from a land and were about to be carried to the dump yard. When some of our warriors noticed its fate, they intervened and brought it to our plot of land where we planted it. In its new home, it
Many children are not aware of the benefits of a clean and healthy environment, and why it is important for them to know as well. You could give a workshop for children at your school and tell them about it. Or start an online campaign to inform children about it. On World Earth Day, we
