Green City Theatre Road Show Limbe

The Green City Theater Road-show project is a very timely initiative by the Organization for Gender, Civic Engagement and Youth Development (OGCEYOD), given the growth of the city caused by settlers from neighboring communities within the Southwest region who happen to be victims of the ongoing crisis in the Northwest and Southwest regions of the country. With the increase in population, so is the increase in waste production, especially plastic waste littered everywhere within the city due to a lack of information by the inhabitants on proper waste management and disposal techniques, as well as methods of plastic recycling within households.

The project had as its objective to sensitize Thirty communities within the Limbe I, II, and III municipalities on proper waste management techniques and local methods of plastic waste recycling, using theatre displays by talented youths selected from within the targeted communities.

This will go a long way to reduce the number of plastics littered on our streets, in gutters, and drainage systems with very negative consequences like flooding due to blockages in drainage systems, diseases like malaria from mosquitoes breeding in water settled in littered plastics, poor agricultural yields due to plastics in the soil, increase in temperature resulting from indiscriminate burning of plastics into the atmosphere etc, with their negative impacts on humans, animals and the environment as a whole. This project mitigated the negative impact of climate change and initiated adaptative strategies.

Workshops organized had three main objectives:

• To enlighten the youth participants on basic knowledge of proper waste management and recycling techniques, with specific emphasis on plastic waste.
• To carry out an audition for the selection of twenty participants out of the forty expected youth, two from each of the twenty communities within Limbe I and Limbe II Municipalities, thus leaving one from each community.
• To be introduced to the theater training and to familiarize themselves with their trainers as well as their roles in the play.
• Equip 20 participants with theatre skit skills for the road-show sensitization within neighborhoods of Limbe.