

Mass Communication Students Visit VeryNile to Raise Environmental Awareness
Mass Communication Students Visit VeryNile to Raise Environmental Awareness
23 Nov 2023The Community Service Committee of the Faculty of Al-Alsun and Mass Communication committee organized a visit to the Very Nile Initiative for Mass Communication students onTuesday, November 14, 2023. The purpose of the visit was to raise students’ awareness about the importance of ensuring access to clean water, aligning with the sixth sustainable development goal of the United Nations and Egypt’s 2030 vision for clean water, equitable sanitation, and hygiene for all.
The Very Nile Initiative aims to raise awareness about the importance of reducing plastic consumption and develop eco-friendly solutions to remove inorganic waste from the river, in collaboration with the fishermen on Qursaya Island in Cairo.
The visit started with an orientation given by Mr. Ahmed Hatem, the logistics manager, who offered students a tour of VeryNile units. He emphasized VeryNile’s commitment to developing sustainable methods for cleaning the Nile, including recycling plastic bottle caps into multi-use plastic sheets and transforming or “upcycling” these plastic bags into attractive products such as bags, wallets, and caps. He also highlighted that VeryNile empowers local marginalized communities of fishermen through an environmental process of collecting recyclables of trash from the Nile in exchange for financial incentives.
After the orientation, the students attended two workshops. They first attended an environmental session conducted by Ms. Amna Karamallah, the Awareness and Advocacy Intern. She provided the students with valuable information about the Nile River, its sources, beach cleanups, plastic pollution, and various awareness-raising activities. In the second workshop, the students had a hands-on upcycling experience where they made their own wallets out of plastic waste and took them home.








