Al Qasba celebrates 'World Environment Day'

The event comprises of several educational, entertaining and fundraising activities that aim at raise public's awareness about the environment preserving cause, such as a cleanup campaign, an 'Art Out Of Waste' competition, 'Save Energy' campaign, and charity auctions where the proceeds will be donated to the UAE's Red Crescent.

In the Art Out Of Waste' competition participants have to come up with an artistic model made from recycled materials was launched two weeks ago, and participants are already in action to display their arts in front of an evaluation judges' panel, who will announce the winner on June 5th.

In line with this, a cleanup campaign in which Al Qasba personnel will participate along with volunteers and representatives from governmental and private institutions will take place on June 4th and 5th, 'Sharjah Museums Department' will participate in cleaning up 'Al Khan Beach' (June 4th, 5pm-7pm) and 'Althonians Fraternity and Sorority' will help in cleaning up 'Abu Shagara Park' (June 5th, 5pm-7pm).

During the event, a special stall will be set up to educate the public about energy saving procedures. At the stall, representatives from Ecobility Energy Solutions LLC will be selling energy-saving light bulbs.

Al Qasba officials also announced that two auctions will be held in conjunction with these campaigns where famous paintings for local artists such as Ms. Nuha Asad and Ms. Karima Al Shomi will be auctioned on June 4th and 5th and dresses by designers such as Mr. Walid Atallah will be auctioned on June 5th, the auction will be between 9-10 PM.

Commenting on this occasion, Dina Al Nakhi, Events Manager, Al Qasba Development Authority, said:

"The technologies we are developing, the massive production, usage and disposal of several items worldwide, are the main reason for destroying our own environment. From the UAE, we are uniting with the world to spread awareness of critical environmental causes such as global warming, waste disposal, desertification, water pollution, air pollution, and energy loss. We are hoping for a wide participation especially with the various activities that we planned for this day, and we are looking forward to send, along with the caring people from UAE, a wakeup call that we hope will drive environment preserving to higher levels."

"Energy saving is one of the world's top debated issues, and people in the UAE should be aware of the importance of energy saving. Ecobility Energy Solutions LLC representatives will inform people on how they can save energy by simply replacing their regular light bulbs with energy saving ones. These bulbs cost about the same as the regular ones and consume less than quarter of energy used by ordinary bulbs," concluded Al Nakhi.

It is noteworthy that 'Bee'ah' has donated 1000 fabric bags and around 200 T-shirts to be used during the campaign, and Sharjah Museums Department will be giving out free entry tickets to all volunteers to go see the Sharjah Aquarium.

Established in 1972 by the United Nations General Assembly, the World Environment Day was introduced to focus the world's attention on environmental issues and stimulate politicians to take positive actions towards the environment.