The Estonian-founded global clean-up initiative, the Let’s Do It Foundation, is one of the three winners of the 2018 edition of the UNESCO-Japan Prize. The Let’s Do It Foundation won the prize for its international projects, the “World Cleanup Day” and “Keep it Clean.” The UNESCO-Japan Prize is funded by the government of Japan and […]
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The Estonian-founded global clean-up initiative, Let’s Do It! World, brought together 144 countries from all over the world for a massive waste clean-up on 15 September.* The Let’s Do It! movement, which started in Estonia in 2008 when 50,000 people came together and cleaned up the entire country in five hours, has since grown into
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The Estonian-founded global clean-up initiative, Let’s Do It! World, aims to bring together 150 countries from all over the world for a massive waste clean-up on 15 September. The Let’s Do It! movement, which started in Estonia in 2008 when 50,000 people came together and cleaned up the entire country in five hours, has since
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Eva Truuverk is an Estonian lady whose mission is to bring together people around the world to clean up their countries – and thus the entire planet – on the Let’s Do It! World day, 15 September 2018. Let’s Do It! World is a civic-led mass movement that began in Estonia in 2008 when 50,000
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In April and May, more than 2.7 million people from 20 countries joined the Let’s Do It! cleanups, accompanied by festivals and events to draw attention to the growing problem of illegal waste. Let’s Do It! cleanup events were held in Belarus (23,000 people), Cyprus (15,000), the Czech Republic (65,000), Greece (60,000), Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Iris van Genuchten, originally from the Netherlands, writes how she ended up in the Estonian island of Hiiumaa and fell in love with it, discovering the Estonian passion along the way. Some encounters pass by gradually, almost unnoticed, until some years later that encounter turns out to be a key moment for your future life. I
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The Estonian global clean-up initiative, Let’s Do It! World, aims to bring together 150 countries all over the world for a massive waste clean-up on 8 September 2018; to kickstart the event, the organisers have launched a crowdfunding campaign. “With our crowdfunding campaign, we’re taking the first real step to make this big plan a
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Last year, the civic-led waste clean-ups, part of the Let’s Do It! World campaign, engaged 3.4 million people in 34 countries who altogether collected about 45,000 tonnes of illegal waste. Albania, Kenya, Libya, Macedonia, the Philippines, Russia, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Bolivia, Romania, Colombia, Kosovo, Finland, Belarus, Hungary, Sweden, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Malta, Estonia, Greece, Cyprus,
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Over 9,000 people took part in a waste clean-up action in Afghanistan recently. The cleanup action was organised in ten provinces, including Kabul, which witnessed three terrifying suicide attacks just a day before. “We had three deadly suicide attacks on 7 August in Kabul, the capital. More than 40 people were killed and around 400
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When the Estonian entrepreneur, Rainer Nõlvak, announced his team wants to bring together 50,000 Estonians to clean up the entire country from illegal waste in just one day, there was a lot of disbelief. Something like this had never been done anywhere in the world.* Back in 2007, nobody had an idea how much illegal
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