We help on Environment Awareness and Protection
Environmental awareness is to understand the fragility of our environment and the importance of its protection. Promoting environmental awareness is an easy way to become an environmental steward and participate in creating a brighter future for our children.
Environmental protection is the practice of protecting the natural environment by individuals, organizations, and governments. Its objectives are to conserve natural resources and the existing natural environment and, where possible, to repair damage and reverse trends.
Safety hygiene includes personal hygiene, safe handling of food, preventing cross-contamination, cleaning procedures, allergen control, safe storage of food, and cooking temperatures. Implementing appropriate food management systems. This refers to the overarching system that keeps food and the premises safe and hygienic.
Friends of Karansi facilitator visit the Maasai community to educate them on how to protect their environment (Lobosireti, Simanjiro Manyara Region)
The following are the ways Friends of Karansi (FOK) do to protect the environment;
- To educate society on how to reduce, reuse, and recycle. Cut down on what you throw away. Follow the three “R’s” to conserve natural resources and landfill space.
- Volunteering for cleanups in the community.
- Educating the importance and value of our natural resources.
- Conserve water. The less water you use, the less runoff and wastewater that eventually end up in the ocean.
- Shop wisely. Buy less plastic and bring a reusable shopping bag.
- Planting trees. Trees provide food and oxygen. They help save energy, clean the air, and help combat climate change.
- Don’t send chemicals into our waterways. Choose non-toxic chemicals in the home and office.
- Building good toilets
- Practicing zero-grazing by avoiding keeping many cattle which cause soil erosion.
For safety and personal hygiene, we help the community by;
- Training the use of hand Sanitizers
- Set up a Schedule of cleanness hand and body
- Clean of Windows
- Set Up a Garbage Disposal System
- Ensure areas around the environment are Cleaned.
- Provide clean air by making sizable windows to allow fresh air in and out.