Cleaning Up the Environment and Rescuing a Rare Mammal - A UNDP Photo Essay Contest, November 2009
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Credit: Faiza Hajji Wozniak, MoroccoPhotographs from three winning photo essays in an Africa-wide United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) contest covering people working to mitigate or prevent the effects of climate change.
First Photo: Faiza Hajji Wozniak's winning photo essay covers a fair trade project which she launched in her home town in Morocco. It begins by showing discarded plastic bags. -
Credit: Faiza Hajji Wozniak, MoroccoSeeing the bags, a group of women decide to act. -
Credit: Faiza Hajji Wozniak, MoroccoThey collect the bags and a local grass called alfa. -
Credit: Faiza Hajji Wozniak, MoroccoThey make baskets, bags and other products for international sale. -
Credit: Faiza Hajji WozniakThe project is organized by Ifassen, a fair trade company. -
Credit: Ali Barisa, KenyaAli Barisa, 12, of Kenya won second place with a photo essay documenting kids participating in a slum neighborhood clean-up project.
In this photo, volunteers participate in a clean-up of the neighbourhood in Mathare, Kenya. -
Credit: Ali Barisa, KenyaThe clean up is organized weekly in 16 zones by the Mathare Youth Sports Association. -
Credit: Ali Barisa, KenyaVolunteers collect garbage, open drainage and plant trees on public land and in schools. -
Credit: Ali Barisa, KenyaAbout 20,000 youths participate in this programme linking sports and service. -
Credit: Djibril Sy, SenegalDjibril Sy is a Senegalese photojournalist who documented the rescue by fishermen of a West African manatee stranded in a pond of the Senegal River during the dry season. -
Credit: Djibril Sy, SenegalVillagers organize a committee for emergency operations to save the mammal. -
Credit: Djibril Sy, SenegalThey sprinkle water on the manatee to keep it hydrated in the heat. -
Credit: Djibril Sy, SenegalCelebrity designer Oumou Sy celebrates the manatee's return to deeper waters.
