Vungtau city lies in the Southeast of Vietnam and is well-known as a tourist city with beautiful beaches and mountains. These nice beaches are beneficial to the local people in various different ways. They provide a good source of seafood and fish, which bring essential nutrient to the people and help to generate income for the fishermen. In addition to natural resources, the beaches are a wonderf
ul spot for everyone to exercise and explore mother Nature. Many elder people routinely go swimming or work out to keep a healthy life. Younger generation maximize their time exploring the mysterious ocean world by collecting the seashell or building the sand castle. However, the noticeable problem is that there is a growing amount of plastic trash being thrown close to/to the ocean by both local and tourist people. This poses a dangerous threat to both the life under the ocean and the life quality of those who are beneficial to the ocean. It will also negatively impact on our future generation. Most importantly, the cost of this threat is hardly measurable. Given this context, Chay Nhat project was established to address this problem of plastic trash. To make it end, the project will deploy running (or any kind of sport) as a mobilizing method to both collect the plastic trash along the beach/in the mountain and motivate the participants to exercise. Through this fusion activity, the participants can contribute to the ocean/city/where you are living free of plastic trash. In turn, they can achieve a more meaningful work-out. Chay Nhat is more than a project. It’s a LIFESTYLE AND RESPONSIBILITY. By August 2018, the project targets:
- To receive 100 local people and tourists participating.
- To have 300 LIKES on page.
- To collect at least 300 bags of plastic trash
- To run at least 2,000 km to collect the plastic trash
- To post at least 300 posts related to plastic trash and running on page
- To collaborate with a school and another organization specializing in collecting trash to pick up trash in Vungtau city.
- To share the initiative of Chay Nhat project in an international conference at least
- To publish the initiative of Chay Nhat from a well-known organization. Mother Nature has been generous enough to our humans. Time to GIVE BACK to her. Please join our project by taking one or more than one of the following activities:
1. Run and Pick with Nhat Ngay project leader
The leader of the Nhat Ngay project runs almost everyday in Vungtau and you are more than welcome to join him/other members. The running routine will start at 5am during the weekday and 5pm at the weekends (Saturday and Sunday). The meeting point is in front of Nhà Văn Hoá Thiếu Nhi Vũng Tàu. Should you need a more flexible schedule, please drop us a message. We will do our best to tailor your need.
2. Run and Pick on your own/with your friends
As the headline suggests, all you have to do is to collect the trash along your running routine on your own/with your friends. It does not matter what type of trash and how much trash that you collect. What you need to prepare includes a pair of gloves or similar things to protect your hands while collecting, and a cell-phone to take the picture of your accomplishment. Upon the completion of your running and trash collecting, please make sure you will throw it into the trash can. Then, please share with us your meaningful work by sending us the message with the picture (plus your running achievement if you feel comfortable). With your consent, we will post it on our project’s wall. OR you can post the picture on your Facebook wall with the hashtag:
3. Sharing your story of minimizing trash
To promote a sustainable life with minimal trash released to the environment, we are striving to look for inspiring and empowering story/initiative of how to reduce our personal trash in our daily life. Therefore, should you know any story/initiative through video/infographic or any kind, please kindly share with us by sending us a message. We will post that information on Chay Nhat project’s page.
