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A HELL OF A CLEAN-UP! 9.

“I go to people’s garbage and tell them… show me” -Afroz Shah

Picture this… it is 2015 and a were nearly five feet tall and Soon the beach became
young lawyer, with his 84 year knew at that moment that this spic and span but there was
old neighbor, decides to bring was going to be a personal another problem lurking… the
in a BIG change, and it was journey. So he did what people living close by who
not about changing just the nobody would do… he started were dumping their waste
décor of their house (which cleaning a whole beach by out there. So he started
most of us regard as a massive himself and slowly but surely going to nearby villages and
change). He decided to change more and more people began hosted workshops to spread
the state of Versova beach in to join him, or as Afroz says awareness about waste,
Mumbai! And what started “I provoked them until they teaching the people about
as one man picking up trash, listened”. Soon there were waste segregation and proper
ended with a reward from the almost a 100 people on the disposal. Today, there is no
U.N. for the greatest cleanup beach with Afroz helping to more trash, there’s just the
in the world with 112 weeks of clean up the place which they beautiful beach of people’s
cleanup and 9 million tonnes all had memories attached to. memories!
of waste under his belt.
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So who was he and how did Sarthak Tallamraju, MYP 2
he pull this off?

His name is Afroz Shah and
he is a firm believer in the
fact that the Earth is our
responsibility and we need to
preserve it.

When Afroz was younger,
he used to play at the
Versova beach and just then
as he reminisced about his
childhood on that beach, he
took a step back and looked
at the mounds of trash that