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CANACONA
After having focused its efforts on clearing garbage on land, the NGO Goenkar on Saturday turned its attention to waste from water bodies in Canacona municipality and collected large amounts of garbage, including medical and religious waste.
Team Goenkar led by its president Jack Fernandes and general secretary Vikas Bhagat, was assisted by 16 students of Shri Mallikarjun College of Arts & Commerce, Canacona, and eight volunteers from the Bangalore-based Field Services and Inter-Cultural Learning (FSL India).
The team cleaned up a rivulet at Devabhaga, where Goenkar and fellow volunteers claimed to have recovered a large amount of medical and religious waste.
“We should all follow our religious practices, but at the same time, we must respect nature. Respecting nature is what we are taught in all religions,” remarked Bhagat, while commenting on the recovery of religious waste from the rivulet.
Added Fernandes: “We also recovered over 200 pampers from a water body near the Mamlatdar office. This was a shocking recovery for us.”
On finding large amounts of garbage and waste dumped in water bodies, the team plans a door-to-door awareness drive on the importance of keeping environment clean.
