On Monday, Shaniera Akram took to her Instagram posting a picture of herself standing around the waste and dump on the clifton beach – with quite an alarming caption.
She stresses on the need to stop littering and being ignorant of the reality that our city is producing trash without an effective means of disposal. She urged everyone to start working together in order to keep the city hygienic and contributing to making it a clean space to live in.
She’s pointed out the fact that in order to do so there have to be trash bins so that people can dispose their garbage. Below in her instagram post she has appealed to the Cantonment Board Clifton (CBC) to look in to this.
She also posted a picture of a poor little girl walking around barefoot in the trash and pointed to the seriousness of the situation in terms of safety and hygiene.
Wasim Akram also took to his instagram page and posted a video showing the current condition of Clifton beach. He says not only does the place need to be cleaned up, but the people who litter are the culprits too. To have a cleaner and healthier environment , it’s the citizens responsibility to play the major role and unless we don’t adopt clean habits, our city will never be free from diseases, global warming and the negative impact caused by garbage and plastic disposal into the sea. See his video below.
SHE BROUGHT THIS MATTER TO THE NOTICE OF CBC LAST YEAR
Shaniera Akram’s disappointment on the state of Clifton Beach led her to beg CBC to look into this matter last year as well. Here are a few images and videos she posted last year in 2019 on her Instagram.
She tweeted last year,
“Medical waste, syringes, vials of blood that has come in from the ocean has spread across Clifton beach for kilometres”.
The Sindh police cordoned off the area soon after her tweet and not just that, Shaniera received love and support from all the citizens of Karachi whereas she thought that the people will hate her for closing down the beach. Akram’s efforts were instead lauded by the citizens and people were grateful for her to come up with this initiative.
Soon after her tweet, CBC took action and isolated the clifton beach. Akram shared images of the Clifton beach, praising CBC’s hard work. “Thank you CBC for fulfilling your promise by not only protecting your staff but also the people of Karachi,” she wrote.
Not once did they complain nor played the blame game. Unidentified Medical waste washed up on their beach & they got to work, not only working around the clock cleaning up dangerous waste but also raised the bar & showed Karachi the way cleaners should be protectively uniformed https://t.co/v4h2iJM082
— Shaniera Akram (@iamShaniera) September 6, 2019
From this to this! Protective gloves, closed footwear, sunhats, reflective jackets & identification, industrial medical waste bins & biohazard waste handling equipment. Thank you CBC for fulfilling your promise by not only protecting your staff but also the people of Karachi 👏🏼💪 pic.twitter.com/2IPlFZgFls
— Shaniera Akram (@iamShaniera) September 6, 2019
She also posted on her Instagram – explaining that if you’re determined towards achieving a certain goal – nothing can stand in your way.
Wasim Akram also thanked Shaniera’s efforts on this initiative after looking at a new, clean Clifton beach.
BACK TO THE SAME MESS AGAIN
However, this year we’re all right back to where we began. With piles of garbage on the same Karachi beach. Shaniera is determined yet again and appeals CBC to shed some light on this disastrous city situation.
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