A SHINING EXAMPLE OF COMMUNITY SPIRIT
MONTHLY VOLUNTEER-LED MISSIONS
The City Friends Club is a non-profit organisation that organises monthly volunteer-led clean-up missions all over the City of Limassol. Their overall aim is to improve urban spaces. The organisation actively finds places to clean every month. All volunteers then meet at pre-designated public locations and spend their morning collecting all kinds of unwanted refuse. This breathes new life into every corner of the city, and helps to create a more beautiful and cleaner city. The organisation is solely dependent on donations that support the work of its cleaners. Each volunteer surrenders a few hours a month for not only a rewarding experience but one that fills them with a sense of pride.
A GROUP PHOTO
Volunteers often collect all types of discarded refuse and litter. This includes cans, water bottles, cigarette butts, and various food packaging. A pre-selected area is divided into smaller patches. Each patch is then given to volunteers who are issued with trash bags, trash pickers and heavy-duty gloves. Once these trash bags are filled, they then return to the central meeting point. Organisers and volunteers then gather for a group photo next to all the waste they have collected on the day. This acts as an accomplished award for each volunteer.
THE CITY FRIENDS CLUB APP
Further information is available about the schemes run by the City Friends Club in Limassol. This can be done by downloading their smartphone application, which is available on all smartphone platforms. Once downloaded, groups can organise clean-ups and then photograph the results. These images can then be uploaded to the application. Prizes for active participation are always available, and users can swipe left for ‘before’ and right for ‘after’ photos of locations that have been cleaned. These images vividly demonstrate how effective the City Friends Club app works with its active users.
