{"id":9347,"date":"2018-09-25T14:22:56","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T12:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pina.si\/en\/?p=9347"},"modified":"2018-10-05T15:42:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T13:42:55","slug":"we-took-part-in-the-coastal-cleanup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stara.pina.si\/en\/we-took-part-in-the-coastal-cleanup\/","title":{"rendered":"WE TOOK PART IN THE COASTAL CLEANUP “\u010cISTA OBALA”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The weather was on our side on this end of summer. By the time we arrived at the meeting point, the sun was already warming our still sleepy minds. Around 9.30, just after meeting \u0160pela, Uro\u0161 and Andreja \u2013 the organizers of the event \u2013 we were split into 3 groups. While one volunteer stayed on the spot to help with the organization and to prepare his DJ set, the rest of us were getting ready for the serious business: cleaning the coast<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Slovenian littoral is around 47km long<\/strong>. That is very short but a huge amount in the same time when the task consists of cleaning it. Of course, we didn\u2019t take care of the whole shore \u2013 our part wasn\u2019t even a full kilometre. But as we were driving to our assigned spot, the layman I was couldn\u2019t retain his curiosity about the kind of items we were about to find.<\/p>\n

So our environmental adventure began. For 2 hours, we picked up common items such as cigarette butts, plastic bottles or, even more frequent, fishing nets.<\/strong> More surprisingly we even found a dinghy, an inflatable boat that was left there, behind rocks on this remoted part of the littoral. The work consisted then of spotting the objects\u2019 brand, thus proving that the beach pollution isn\u2019t only a matter of what the waves are dropping on the coast but also engage the responsibility of the local community.<\/p>\n

Half-a-dozen plastic bags filled and an interview for Radio Koper later, we hit the road again. Back to the departure point where our fellow cleaning groups started to come back one by one. While our Italian DJ was juggling between his set and some musical requests from his audience, we enjoyed the taste of a well-deserved lunch. Unfortunately, we couldn\u2019t get involved in the workshops that took place in the nearby stalls afterwards \u2013 our Slovene still being not quite fluent.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, this \u010cista Obala experience was a success to me, and not only for its beneficial properties on the environment. As a group of foreign volunteers living in Slovenia for more or less 6 months, we\u2019ve had the opportunity to really do something helpful for the local community.<\/strong> That\u2019s what EVS is also about. Furthermore, showing involvement even though we only arrived recently in the area and being able to speak about it in a local media is a good way to promote volunteering and participation at a local scale. You don\u2019t need to be an expert of social, environmental matters or to be born and raised in the local community to be active.<\/p>\n

Find more information about the action \u010cista obala<\/strong> here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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On Saturday, 15th of September 2018, our EVS volunteer group woke up to the sound of an early alarm clock. Direction Strunjan beach, where they took part of the yearly \u010cista Obala, the Slovenian contribution to the International Coastal Clean-up. Read about their experience in the article below, written by our EVS volunteer Joris Degas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":9350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[181,104,86],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stara.pina.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stara.pina.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stara.pina.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stara.pina.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stara.pina.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9347"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stara.pina.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9464,"href":"https:\/\/stara.pina.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9347\/revisions\/9464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stara.pina.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stara.pina.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stara.pina.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stara.pina.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}