
Clean Islands
International, Inc.
MISSION
STATEMENT:
Clean
Islands International, Inc. is "a non-profit non-governmental organization
with international members who are dedicated to providing educational and
technical assistance to island communities for the preservation and
beautification of indigenous natural environments and the sustainable development
of proper solid waste handling practices".
FOUNDED: April 9, 1992, Great Guana Cay, Abaco, The Bahamas.
PURPOSE: Clean Islands International's purpose is
to cultivate individual and community environmental awareness by supporting
active participation of individual residents, organizations and businesses in
planning, developing and implementing solid waste management programs,
including litter prevention, recycling and composting.
FOCUS: Clean Islands International's focus is to promote cooperation in
the development of positive resolutions of environmental issues and to provide
assistance in developing and presenting environmental awareness projects and
educational activities to benefit island communities.
Clean
Islands International's Board of Directors
Clean
Islands International has two focus areas: Education and Technical
Assistance
Education:
As an active participant in the United Nations Global Youth Environmental Forum
in 1992 (UN, New York City, New York), 1993 (Boulder, Colorado), 1994
(Washington, D.C.) and 1995 (San Francisco, California), special emphasis is on
those activities which are developed for and/or by young people to enhance
interest in education through environmental projects.
In 1994,
Clean Islands International produced a two hour video, entitled “Environmental
Lessons for Island Communities” for distribution to 100 schools in the US
Virgin Islands under USEPA funding. Four half hour lessons explore many of the
interrelated environmental issues facing island communities. Students and
educators from the US Virgin Islands are featured as they teach each other
about their islands' fragile ecosystems and how to respect and preserve them.
With additional support from RCCL's Ocean Fund in 1998, 1,000 copies of the
video and a workbook were distributed to schools throughout the Caribbean.
In 1995,
Clean Islands was recognized by Friends of the United Nations, with a "We The Peoples, 50
Communities Award" for our involvement in the United Nations
Environment Programme Global Youth Forum and the Clean Islands international sister school project which
featured schools from Abaco, The Bahamas; New Brunswick, Canada; and Maryland
USA.
In
November 1997, Clean Islands International was selected by the University of
the
Clean
Islands International continues its efforts initiated with the United Nations
to provide environmental and education to Caribbean Youth through programs such
as the "Wider Caribbean
Environmental Youth Program" which has been offered at VIERS (1999 to
2009) and summer eco-camps and science camps for U.S. Virgin Islands students.
Technical Assistance:
In the past 18 years, Clean Islands International has offered fifteen
conferences with the generous support of many other organizations. Our first
conference, the Island Waste
Management Conference was held in
Our second
Caribbean regional conference was held after a season of over 20 named
hurricanes. The Caribbean Waste
Management Conference was held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 1995. The
theme of this conference was "Pollution Vulnerability in Island
States" and ReCaribe: The Wider
Caribbean Solid Waste and Recycling Alliance was established by resolution
of the delegates.
Since
1995, Clean Islands has presented the "ReCaribe:
Wider Caribbean Solid Waste Management Conference". This annual
conference was held in Trinidad (1997), Florida Keys (1998), Curacao (1999),
Martinique (2000), St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands (2001), Bayahibe, Dominican Republic
(2002), Tobago (2003), St. Vincent (2004), Curacao (2005), Antigua (2006), St.
John, U.S. Virgin Islands (2007). With continued partnership with the Caribbean
Environmental Health Institute (CEHI), ReCaribe 2008: 14th Caribbean Waste
Management Conference was held in Grenada, June 23-27, 2008 in conjunction with
CEHI’s 4rd Caribbean Environmental Forum and Exhibition. Our next
conference continues our partnership with the Caribbean Environmental Health
Institute (CEHI), ReCaribe 2008: 14th Caribbean Waste Management Conference will
be held in Jamaica, June 21-26, 2010 in conjunction with CEHI’s 5th Caribbean
Environmental Forum and Exhibition.
Clean
Islands has also actively participated in many other forums in the past 18
years, including:
Clean
Islands was an Official NGO at the UN GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON
THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPINGSTATES which met in
Bridgetown, Barbados, from 25 April - 6 May 1994.
Clean
Islands International actively participated in the Third International
Conference on Marine Debris, held in Miami, May 1994.
Clean Islands International actively participated in the First Caribbean
Environmental Forum, held in conjunction with the 11th CWWA Conference in
Clean
Islands International is a non-profit non-governmental U.S. I.R.S. 501(c)(3)
organization, exclusively organized for charitable, educational and scientific
purposes. Clean Islands is also registered as a non-profit organization in the
U.S. Virgin Islands. Donations are tax deductible as laws allow.
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