How did our day go?

9 March 2019 – Programme of the day

The start of the day was in beachclub Oscars, at Scheveningen with coffee and a snack.

Lloyd from WWF and Ralph from Thrashurehunt told us their personal history and why they were doing this work for many years already. It was very inspiring to hear their motivation. Ralph said for example we could all turn our negative thoughts on the trash other people are making into a positive one and have self fulfilment by cleaning up with our body, a gifted machine with which we could do this work. Since we had Dutch weather, we were very lucky to go outside soon after this introduction. We had around 30 participants under which rotaracters from several clubs of the The participants were divided in two groups, one to clean up the beach with the WWF and the other group to clean up the dunes with Trashure hunt. The leaders of the two groups told us that they were organising a lot of these events, but they were surprised by our enthusiasm and engagement in this. There was sunshine, wind and also a lot of trash(including plastic). We were surprised what we found. The beach club season wasn’t officially started yet, but already there were many things that didn’t originally belong in nature…

We found a lot of cigarette filters, plastic straws, cups, packaging andeven a big tube and a plastic rain boot… In total we collected more than 165 kg of trash! All of us felt really satisfied by this result of hard working together. It was also fun!

This project couldn’t have been done without our Partners and Support

For this project we contacted many people and organisations. As partners we had as international organisation, World Wildlife Fund (https://www.worldwildlife.org) and also a local organisation from The Hague, Trashurehunt (https://trashurehunt.org). The vision of both organizations is that we, as humans, can make a difference in a positive way to erase our footprint in our environment and to end the plastic pollution. They are activating and motivating people and creating awareness. From Rotary club Scheveningen, our Mother club, we got financial support for our project. Thank you.

As it happens every year, the new members of Rotaract Club Scheveningen organized a new members activity. This year it took place on 26th of May at the Haagsche Bluf, 46. Located in the heart of The Hague, the Haagsche Bluf is a residence for people with an intellectual disability.

The residents live individually in their own studios, while enjoying common social areas
where they can share and do activities together with other residents or volunteers whenever it is possible.

Our members have spent a nice, sunny afternoon at the residence – not only to socializing but also
cooking dinner together with the residents! Along with some of them, grocery shopping is done and
a lot of pizza’s are baked to share a Saturday afternoon meal! It was a great opportunity for the new
members to get to know the community – through a fun and tasty activity!

On April 7, we helped Stichting Present Den Haag cleaning up the house of an expectant mother. Stichting Present is a foundation that organizes activities for groups, general activities that take place only once, and are therefore easier to plan and execute. Activities are reported to the Foundation via social work, after which it is checked whether a group is available to do the work.

This was also the case for us on April 7. The work consisted of helping an expectant mother with cleaning up the house and the basement. Due to circumstances, she could not do this herself. Upon entering we split into two groups; the first group helped with cleaning and sorting in the house, the second group went to work in the basement to get this organized. In this work, things were sorted according to whether it should be stored, donated or be thrown away. At the end of the day, the result was a cleaner house and storage. With a good feeling, we could enjoy the rest of the day and the nice weather.

Due to privacy of the person we helped, there are no pictures available.