One year is already passed, and it seems yesterday when I posted Local Guides Clean The World - A Local Guides project
But at the same time it seems that Clean The World has been always here, as a natural extension of this community.
Looking back at this last year, it is hard to believe that we only started a year ago.
Looking back at what has been done, it is hard to believe that we did it in just one year.
I have to check the worldwide “Mymaps of plastic pollution”, continuously updated by David Tito, for a confirmation. The long list of events is impressive
Australia, Bangladesh, England, Indonesia, Italy, Ivory Coast, France, Germany, Malaysia, Pakistan, Spain, Sri Lanka, United States.
Five continents, hundreds Local Guides, all with one idea in their mind: making this planet a better place to live.
Take your time, and open the map. If you haven’t seen it before, you will be amazed. There is already one year of history in there
I cannot mention all the Local Guides that are part of the project, so please forgive me if you are not in the list. My heart is with you.
But I want to mention some of my personal milestones of this project. Feel free to add yours on the replies
David Tito. It was mid of February when I contacted @DavidTito for the very first time. I introduced briefly my idea of adding contents in MyMaps, and asked him if he was interested in following this part. I didn’t explained what was the map for, I just gave him a general idea of “mapping the pollution”. David said “yes, I will, when you are ready you will tell me more…”
One year later, David still working on the MyMaps, updating the activity and, in the last month, creating a course on Connect for the use of MyMaps.
Without David, #LocalGuidesCleanTheWorld will not be the same. Thank You David
The Logo. March 5, 2018 - Asking the community to be part of the contest for creating a new Logo, representing the Project (without explaining anything about the project) was super interesting. If you are new in the community, you will be probably surprised by the spirit of cooperation. Only a short explanation, and a lot of Local guides started to invent, to create the logo. The community voted the logos, and on March 25 we had the official one . Thank you to @MiroslavSerbia
The big Indonesian Groups, (I will just mention @RiverDefender and @br14n as a reference for Batu and Bogor) started to follow the project from the first beginning. Their stories are older than this project, but they joined immediately under ouf flag. What they are doing is impressive. They work tirelessly to keep their areas clean, to educate people, to create awareness. Thank you for your energy
Karen: @KarenVChin supported me on the project from the first beginning, together with @FaridTDF , editing, working on the backstage, helping in the preparation of the posts.
She also organised the big, iconic event in San Francisco, in the same day of the opening of Connect live ‘18. Around 30 Local Guides from all over the world joined us. (A big thanks to @brittym too, for the hidden support)
Crossing the river, was for me an important moment, a few kilometers from where CleanTheWorld was born. Here is the post, to better know what I mean. We have crossed the river, but this is still “Home”. Here below the video
A “one year long” project. This is what I wrote on the original post. I will have to edit the post now, because #LocalGuidesCleanTheWorld will not end today. We will run, we will clean, we will educate as much as we can, until there is nothing left to clean
Looking Forward: The project is adding new activities. The most important is “Waste reporting - on Google Maps” where we are asking an improvement of our App (Google Maps, of course). Please check the idea, your vote count.
Well, Happy Birthday #LocalGuidesCleanTheWorld, the first year is passed, and we are growing up.
Feel free to add your photos, or a link to your event, and your videos, replying in this post.
Thank you to all of you
A big hug (Yes I know, I should not ? ) @TraciC and @KashifMisidia , and a big thank to @IlankovanT , for the " Join us for Free rain" program
And of course, I want to mention the person that supported me from the very first day when, taking photos on Eraclea beach, we started to think about this project. Thank you, @AntonellaGr
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