World Clean Up Day

Calling all Superheroes!

Are you the Clean Up Superhero that Curaçao needs?

For the first time, the World Clean Up Day Curaçao will take place on two days instead of one! On Friday, September 20 and Saturday, September, 21 together with thousands of people will clean up Curaçao! Form your team, pick a location and a day and make Curaçao a better place in just a few hours only!

Curaçao Clean Up will facilitate you with all the necessary materials if needed. And to make this event even better….we have a prize for the most convincing team of Clean Up Superheroes!

Clean Up Registration form

World Clean Up Locations

View all the Clean Up Locations below on the map.

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Ultimate Clean Up Superheroes 2024

To increase the fun during this year’s World Clean Up Day, and as a part of the Super Hero Campaign, the foundation raffles various prizes! This can be one group of 50 volunteers or a few smaller groups. Will your group be awarded the title of Ultimate Superheroes?

Criteria

  • The size of your group
  • The promotion of the World Clean Up Event in your network
  • The team spirit and dedication in your group
  • How well you are organized
  • The result in your area (before & after)
  • Your Superhero presentation / dress code

All criteria will be judged by the organization of World Clean Up Day together with your area coordinator. The results will not be subject to any correspondence. Purpose of this competition is to motivate and add some extra fun to this year’s World Clean Up Day. All participations to World Clean Up Day are equally appreciated.

About World Clean Up Day Curaçao

On World Clean Up Day Curaçao  thousands of volunteers will clean our island at several locations. But this event isn’t just about cleaning our island! 

It’s a way to make a statement against pollution and raise awareness about a problem that has been on our island for many years: people littering, from throwing empty bottles and foam boxes on the street to trucks dumping entire piles of trash on our backroads. Joining World Clean Up Day Curaçao is a way of simply saying ‘Enough is enough!’. 

This clean up event started in 2013 as the Curaçao Clean Up and joined the worldwide initiative ‘Let’s Do It, World!’ in 2016. Since then, our event is called World Clean Up Day Curaçao. By participating as a volunteer, you become part of a global movement that’s taking place in over 190 countries.

Want to know more about the international event Let’s Do It, World? Click here!

Citizens and Volunteers of Curaçao, Let's Do It!

About Let's Do It, World

Just like Curaçao, a group of citizens in Estonia  started a cleanup event, called ‘Let’s Do It’. In 2008 around 50.000 volunteers gathered and cleaned up their entire country in five hours.

It was the start of a bottom-up civic movement and spread like wildfire around the globe. This inspired people worldwide to follow the same ambitious ‘one country, one-day’ formula.

Over 15 years later, the simple idea has grown into a global movement with millions of volunteers and charismatic leaders. The simple act of cleaning has become a force that unites together people and groups that would otherwise never work towards the same goal.

Civil society, governments, global corporations, women in Saudi Arabia, people defying war in Yemen and Syria, Muslims, Jews, Hindus and Christians, men and women, children have all joined in.

Lets Do It World

Nearly every human on this planet has a place they call a Home. Be it a mansion, a street, a hut or a flat in a metropolis. Then there are the cities, countries, and regions we call home. And the planet we call home. When 50,000 Estonians cleaned their home in 5 hours, the world took notice. The simplicity of the idea and the ‘let’s do it’ attitude took off and the rest, as they say, is history. Anyone can pick up trash. In 2018, a 101-year old man volunteered to clean in Curaçao.

 

In Estonia, a group of mothers carrying their babies went out to clean. In Scotland, a dogs association came out with the dogs. But World Cleanup Day has become so much more than the simple act of picking up trash. Daycares, schools, companies, government officials – the old, the young, the rich, the poor, the able and less able – everyone contributed. Because they could. Because they wanted to be involved in making their home a better place. Because they were given an opportunity to help. Because they belong to a community.

Let’s Do It World (LDIW) is a global organization that unites more than 190 countries. World Cleanup Day is the biggest event organized by LDIW. Each country has a leader or a group of leaders, who work day and night, often as volunteers, to mobilize the people in their countries for World Cleanup Day. Leaders come from all walks of life – strong women defying societal boundaries, environmentalists fighting for a better tomorrow, organizations uniting concerned citizens. Each country is affected by the mismanaged waste in different ways.

 

In some, waste is an issue managed by the government; in some, waste is something that the majority of the population is surrounded by; in others, waste and recycling provides thousands of jobs; in some, mismanaged waste is not such a huge issue and in some countries, mismanaged waste is a matter of life and death. Each country addresses the issues surrounding waste that are most pressing for them. LDIW provides guidance, advice and leadership skills for anyone willing to commit time to the cause. The incredible people leading these 191 countries are nothing short of being heroes of our time.

There isn’t one. The sad reality is that the human race needed David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg, images of birds strangled by plastic and sea life filled with cotton swabs, to wake up to what’s surrounding us. The millions united by LDIW are a fraction of the world that care enough to take action. A simple action of picking up trash. These people care for the future. They can look beyond differences and work for keeping what unites us – our common home.

 

This is not a dressing down, nor is it finger-pointing or prophesying a doomsday. It is about positive collaboration, the spirit of unity and most importantly, getting something done for the planet and the realization that we need planet Earth with its resources more than it needs us. 

In summary
Let's Do It World

Let’s Do It World has never been purely about cleaning up trash. Our vision is a clean and healthy waste free planet. We tackle the environmental challenges related to the mismanaged solid waste crisis by mobilizing millions of positive-minded people into coordinated local and global actions. We see waste as simply a mismanaged resource.

Through our activities and campaigns, we aim to create a shift towards better management of resources and inspire towards smarter choices in design, production, and consumption. We also work to raise global awareness and implement lasting changes to end the global waste epidemic, once and for all. Let’s Do It World relies on  five key principles: