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Sandwatch Begins in Ghana, West Africa

As the founder of Simba Friends Foundation Club (S.F.F.C), becoming a SANDWATCHER is something I never dreamt of, but as a Youth Activist and a youth as well you can never run away from an Educational Youth Environment Project like Sandwatch.
Since I and my organization (Simba Friends) joined the Sandwatch family, I never knew that apart from going for picnics, swimming, fishing etc, there are many other things one could do at the beach. First of all I never conceived in my mind that a clean up exercise, talk of measuring wave length, beach Width, and testing the water quality of our beaches could be so important to the environment.
This project has really helped Simba Friends and myself to understand so many things that go on our beaches, even though it is our first time and we don’t have the necessary needed equipments around but I think our first field trip was a success and we believe that as we stay connected to this family of Sandwatchers, we will soon develop the full talent one needs to be a real environmentalists. One the other hand, the Sandwatch project has given as the opportunity to work on the first face of one of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) that is Ensuring Environmental Sustainability to which the U.N. has set to achieve in some years to come. This to me marks a step into Ensuring Environmental Sustainability in my country of Ghana and the world as a whole. “Cleanliness they say and next to Godliness”. So as Sandwatchers I believe that as we come together with One Mind, One Idea and One Voice we can with One Strength achieve our Goal of making our Beaches a home for all.

Aggrey Memorial Sec. School

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