With the goal to build local peace and reduce the effects of the global pandemic on the lives of the young people in the Anglo-Jos community, Jos Green Centre together with the youths of the community began setting up a community livelihood center this year.
A Baseline study showed that the youths of the community were interested and optimistic that a Community Centre will serve as a platform to demonstrate peace building and model an integration of Economic and Environmental Sustainability (EES).
The project began with the acquisition of an abandoned building donated by the community to be remodeled and used as the center.
In order to model an example of economic and environmental sustainability that will continuously inspire these kinds of livelihoods from the center, various means we're designed and explored re-purpose plastics such as PET bottles to rebuild and refurbish the livelihood center. The idea of Repurposing the plastic bottles came from the knowledge of the so many problems plastics cause in the world and most especially the oceans, seeing that there are more plastics than marine organisms in it.
The PET bottles were repurposed into roofing sheets.
The broken floors were filled with bottles filled sand in them.
Other plastic materials such as compact discs, also served as wallpaper, laces with old pieces of clothes.
This projects has so far contributed in taking out approximately 50,000 plastics, which would have polluted the water bodies.
Tremendous!!!
And we are not yet done yet, we hope to stop more plastics from ending into our Oceans through this project.