BY BEN BILUA
GIZO

Two youth groups in Gizo town participated in a one-day workshop on waste segregation and organic composting.

Positive Change for Marine Life Programme Manager, Heiyer Vavojo said the aim of the workshop is to encourage communities to segregate their rubbish.

He stated that the training also teaches participants how to produce organic composting, turning organic waste to compose for farming.

“Today we have youths from Malakerava and Gizo Top Hill. After this workshop, youths will carry out awareness at their respective communities,” Vavojo said.

He said the workshop is part of a project called Pacific People Advancing Change (PPAC) funded by South Pacific Community [SPC].

Vavojo said Positive Change for Marine Life Gizo is part of the programme with major focus on waste segregation.

He said the mission is to ensure households are able to separate rubbish to make Gizo town clean.

The Pacific People Advancing Change (PPAC) programme aims to build the advocacy capacity among Pacific Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) engaged with human rights and social development issues.

It supports specific advocacy campaigns through a package of assistance that includes advocacy training workshops, ongoing mentoring, provision of small grants to support individual advocacy campaigns and facilitation of regional dialogue and exchange for advocates.

The programme produces learning materials for use in the advocacy training and by partner organisations.

PPAC works in eight countries including; Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Kiribati, Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI), Palau, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.

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