- Alfred Fornah/Alhassan Sesay
BEAT AIR POLLUTION ON WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY
More than a hundred Sierra Leone school children learnt of the dangers of toxic air pollution as our outreach programme with schools continues today targeting the Freetown Teachers' College Practicing School to discuss this year's World Environment Day theme to Beat Air Pollution.
Freetown suffers such poor air quality it's one of the reasons we languish at the foot of the world Environmental Performance Index and this pollution gravely impact ours citizens health.
Hazardous pollution in Freetown is caused principally by three things: our own citizen's burning their dirty; by our cities dumpsites perpetually afire and fumes belching from knackered vehicles finding an unchecked after-life on our streets. as well as toxic smoke, these three things release dangerous particles that we breathe in and which can cause cancer.
Alhassan Sesay, Founder of the Sierra Leone School Green Club and organizer of the successful event, explained how fossil fuels are one of the major factors contributing to toxic air pollution as well as accounting for a third of all human emissions.
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