We Screwed her up bigtime

I went on an invite from my friend Vic to shoot his event, part of our celebration of international Coastal cleanup day, there were probably a thousand people who volunteered to help in the cleanup.

The beach was probably no longer than 600meters long, just before the coastal road toll gates. Picture on the left is the picture of the beach, not wider than 20 meters, yet almost a thousand people volunteered to help out, and from what I saw it still seemed a heavy challenge for that many people to clean up such a small space. The trash is what gets washed ashore from the city. We really made a mess on this beach, we screwed her up big time . This beach was uninhabitted as it sits in a construction site of the reclamation area so there were no locals to blame for the filth, all that trash came from cities from pasay to as far as quezon city, who knows how many other beaches there we've contaminated.

During the whole thing I observed some guys who was quite queasy with the cleanup, either too macho , too vain, or just plain too much of a bum standing at the sidelines or at the shade watching the other students work, these guys are the ones who dont go far in life. Some students were wearing their havaianas , hoodie jackets and ipods.. big mistake , but I think it was a good reality check for them. It was a mix of Students, Army men, local government employees and other volunteers who were there hand in hand cleaning that small strip of beach, I cant imagine boracay turning out like this, it would be terribly horrible, but it is definitely possible as who knows were our trash will float up next. It was inspiring to see some of the students and civic org members who looks well to do , some look like business owners or the popular person in school, but just springed to action , grabbed handfulls of garbage and stuffed them in the sacks for collection. With a little luck, a few more , and a few more and a few more will spring to action to help out mother nature .