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Episode 9- Be a Part of the Solution not the Pollution with Christine Coomans, Developer of iPollute app #RingTheBell
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Christine is a climate and environmental activist from South Africa, and currently, She is a part of many organizations. She runs community cleanups on Sundays where they tackle areas that are key spots of illegal dumping, littering and plastic pollution, which is usually near dams, rivers, fields, or diverse forests which are habitats to many frogs, tree squirrels, insects, birds, and even rodents. She constantly writes to the mayor and department heads in the City of Ekurhuleni about this, but there’s been little to no correspondence from their side.
She is also part of Fridays for Future International. Christine does not only participate in the strikes on Fridays (mostly digital strikes lately because of COVID-19), but also is a part of their research and outreach group.
She is also a Communications and Research intern at Extinction Rebellion South Africa and co-organizer for her local group, and they are currently working on campaigns against the EACOP pipeline in East Africa, Standard Bank Oil Investment, Eskom Fossil Fuels Exploitation, Vaal Dam Pollution.
She is also part of the Restless Development Youth group that was selected from South Africa which is a platform to hack global goals problems and gather solutions for them. Out of 685 applicants, only 80 people were chosen – and she is one of the selected people. Her focus in South Africa is education and livelihood. She had our first hack on the 19th of February 2021, and the next one will be the end of April. The campaign is called Youth Power Campaign.
She recently launched a Pollution Tagging App called iPollute, which is free to use and download anywhere. This app allows global users to tag, add, edit, and report areas in and around their community that has been polluted or littered. This makes it easier for professionals, municipalities, and volunteers to locate, report, and resolve issues regarding these pollutants.
She also started her own community organization Climate First South Africa, where we focus on fighting for climate justice locally and nationally throughout South Africa, leading climate campaigns, and she is planning to soon launch monthly campaigns where we go to schools to teach climate education.
Find Christine Coomans on:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChristineCooman
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/christine_coomans/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/christine.coomans.581
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Christine is a climate and environmental activist from South Africa, and currently, She is a part of many organizations. She runs community cleanups on Sundays where they tackle areas that are key spots of illegal dumping, littering and plastic pollution, which is usually near dams, rivers, fields, or diverse forests which are habitats to many frogs, tree squirrels, insects, birds, and even rodents. She constantly writes to the mayor and department heads in the City of Ekurhuleni about this, but there’s been little to no correspondence from their side.
She is also part of Fridays for Future International. Christine does not only participate in the strikes on Fridays (mostly digital strikes lately because of COVID-19), but also is a part of their research and outreach group.
She is also a Communications and Research intern at Extinction Rebellion South Africa and co-organizer for her local group, and they are currently working on campaigns against the EACOP pipeline in East Africa, Standard Bank Oil Investment, Eskom Fossil Fuels Exploitation, Vaal Dam Pollution.
She is also part of the Restless Development Youth group that was selected from South Africa which is a platform to hack global goals problems and gather solutions for them. Out of 685 applicants, only 80 people were chosen – and she is one of the selected people. Her focus in South Africa is education and livelihood. She had our first hack on the 19th of February 2021, and the next one will be the end of April. The campaign is called Youth Power Campaign.
She recently launched a Pollution Tagging App called iPollute, which is free to use and download anywhere. This app allows global users to tag, add, edit, and report areas in and around their community that has been polluted or littered. This makes it easier for professionals, municipalities, and volunteers to locate, report, and resolve issues regarding these pollutants.
She also started her own community organization Climate First South Africa, where we focus on fighting for climate justice locally and nationally throughout South Africa, leading climate campaigns, and she is planning to soon launch monthly campaigns where we go to schools to teach climate education.
Find Christine Coomans on:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChristineCooman
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/christine_coomans/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/christine.coomans.581
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aarav-seth/message
35 min