The Leoclub The Hague together with kids from Blaise Pascal College and Stichting Mooi collected rubbish on the beach of The Hague. Reason to collect litter is to protect our ocean wildlife that they won’t get enstrangled or die because they mistook a piece of plastic for food.

Part of the project was also to get funding for our freetrees project and Yangtze River project.
Thanks so much for your participation and donations.

Marinedream was yesterday invited to come to the shipping wharf to select the boat for the Yangtze River trip! MAERSK work together on this shipping yard with the Chinese owner to dismantle old boats in an environmentally friendly way. First the chemical waste gets removed and asbestos and then the boats are cut up in pieces and sorted into piles of iron, aluminium etc for recycling. The lifeboat that has been donated to us come from the old Asian Panama.

Our team from Tongji University had the kickoff meeting last Sunday. Together with engineer Jean Nicolaas we will redesign this life vessel to a climate/energy friendly boat.

On Sunday we have had our workshop meetings with our volunteer groups of 3 universities: Shanghai International studies university, China Eastern Normal University and Tongji University.

Projects that they are working on:
- Fishmenu
- Outreach: blog
- Treecard Project
- Yangtze River Boat Project

Marinedream has been invited by AIESEC to give a workshop on environmental sustainability on Friday October 16th.

In total of the 300 delegates of ten universities from the Southern part of China joined this event and 65 of them joined our workgroup session. The conference was about UN Millenium goals, how students can play a role to help achieve these goals. Three of the 8 millenium goals were focus of this conference which were: environmental sustainability, HIV and social entrepeneurship.  In our workshop the students got an insight in how the three major themes of environmental degradation: climate change, pollution and biodiversity were related to our oceans and rivers and why we need to start taking action now. Second part of the workshop the students needed to think of ideas what they can do to protect our oceans and rivers. In total 8 groups presented their projects and many of their ideas were creating awareness, which is a great first step to achieve our goals of a cleaner ocean. They came up with ideas like photographing their environment and locate where the issues are and use internet as a medium.

I also met the presidents of the local chapter of AIESEC Nanjing, Wuhan and Chongqing and we will start preparing the arrangements for next year project the Yangtze River. Next week we will visit MAERSK and check the boat