Today, Sunday, on Al-Hawzia beach in Azemmour, a campaign was organized to raise awareness among children in summer camps about the importance of preserving the marine environment, which is part of the “Sea without plastic” operation launched by the Mohammed VI Foundation for the protection of the environment.
This initiative, organized in partnership with the Houza Collegiate Council and the Banque Populaire Foundation, aims to raise awareness among children at Houza summer camps about the dangers of plastic pollution and the importance of preserving marine biodiversity.
Under the supervision of partner associations in this approach, the children of the Hawziyah summer camp benefited from workshops in the field of sea diving and underwater fishing, and others in drawing inspired by marine life, in addition to theoretical courses on the marine environment and recycling of plastic waste.
In a statement to the Maghreb Arab News Agency on this occasion, Ismail Benomar, president of the Association of Friends of the Sea for underwater fishing and environmental conservation and international coach in the sport of free diving, scuba diving and underwater fishing, confirmed that the association has contributed to training children and encouraging them to take care of the environment and protect it by collecting waste, which contributes to the pollution of beaches.
He added that the association oversees a group of workshops for children related to diving initiation, free diving and fishing, in addition to a new workshop related to virtual diving, which makes the child live in the marine world and learns about the side effects that affect the environment, then a workshop related to drawing and presenting living beings found in the depths of the sea using microscope technology.
For his part, the Commander-in-Chief of Mohammedia Scouting in Laayoune, Salek Farah, supervisor of the Al-Houziyeh camp during the third phase, confirmed that 40 children from Mohammedia Scouting benefited from several educational and awareness-raising workshops, and also benefited from an awareness-raising approach to cleanliness and its importance to instill in this sample the values of respect for the environment in order to preserve the marine ecosystem.
