Green Cedar Lebanon founders Pascale Choueiri Saad and Lara Hanna Debs visited today the presidential palace in Baabda where they met H.E the Lebanese President General Michel Aoun and the First Lady of Lebanon, Mrs. Nadia Aoun.
Green Cedar Lebanon presented to the president and the first lady the project hat ais to promote and consolidate the concept of sorting, minimizing and reusing waste, and recycling.
Thanks to Governor Riad Salamé and the BDL, Green Cedar Lebanon and AFDC, in collaboration with Banque Audi and Beyond Magazine, and under the patronage of the ministry of education represented by Mr. Fadi Yarak “Awareness on Wheels” was officially launched on January 18, 2017.
Designed to travel around the country and educate the Lebanese about waste management, and since February 2017 it has been touring schools. Modeled after an American green bus initiative, “Awareness on Wheels” aims to teach youth, especially schoolchildren, the concepts of sorting, minimization of waste generation, reusing of wastes, and recycling.
This green bus will be visiting public and private schools all over Lebanon during the school year, and will also be available to municipalities and local groups that wish to organize community activities to raise awareness about solid waste management.
