My mother is an environmental educator who taught my sister and I about the dangers of littering at a young age. Even my aunt never threw her broken plastic and rather fixed them using Bondic. You can read about how it works on the American Inventor Spot website. I was organizing trash cleanups in elementary school, which was definitely not on the priority list of the kids in my school. My friends used to joke that I wanted to put a giant Band-Aid on the earth. If only that would do the trick…

Here in Kinawataka, kids climb trees above giant trash piles and play in them without a care in the world. People pile plastic and other waste into massive heaps next to houses and beside roads. The piles are burned sending foul smoke flouting throughout the area. In the slums, plastic bags have become fused to the roads as they mixed into the mud during the heavy rains.

In my latest video I explore the challenge of plastic in Uganda and what the Kinawataka Women Initiatives is doing to protect the environment. Check it out to learn more!

My mother is an environmental educator who taught my sister and I about the dangers of littering at a young age. I was organizing trash cleanups in elementary school, which was definitely not on the priority list of the kids in my school. My friends used to joke that I wanted to put a giant Band-Aid on the earth. If only that would do the trick.

Here in Kinawataka, kids climb trees above giant trash piles and play in them without a care in the world. People pile plastic and other waste into massive heaps next to houses and beside roads. The piles are burned sending foul smoke flouting throughout the area. In the slums, plastic bags have become fused to the roads as they mixed into the mud during the heavy rains.

In my latest video I explore the challenge of plastic in Uganda and what the Kinawataka Women Initiatives is doing to protect the environment. Check it out to learn more!