Gambia Ocean Heroes
The Green Award
Biography from the original awards programme.
The Gambia Ocean Heroes (GOH) is a service-learning project working to promote the cleanliness of the country’s coastlines. The group is very active on the 80km coastline (Barra to Kartong) where it organises periodic beach cleanups. GOH has also organised several educational seminars to encouraging attitudinal change towards coastal pollution. It also supports local communities and organisations to taking the lead in efforts towards promoting ocean health and reducing plastic pollution. Since 2018, GOH has collected 319 tons of trash along The Gambia’s coastline.
