DILI, 14 february 2022 (TATOLI) – The Secretary of State for the Environment (SEA), together with Timor-Leste’s Youth Brigade Black Group inaugurated Dili’s Green Garden Love (Jardin Domin Matak), which is located opposite the Chinese Embassy in Timor-Leste.
The Green Garden Love was constructed voluntarily by the Youth Black Brigade Group made up of more than 140 young Timorese.
Amenica Machado Fernandes, the Director of the Centre for Environment Education and Information (CEEI) of SEA informed that the creation of the Green Garden Love was initiated by the Black Brigade Group themselves.
“It took almost a month for the Youth Black Brigade Group to construct this Green Garden. They used waste tires and plastic bottles as the basic materials for the construction of the garden,” Fernandes told reporters at the inauguration ceremony of the Green Garde Love, in Dili, on Monday.
The Secretary of State for the Environment, Demétrio do Amaral de Carvalho said Green Garden Love is a good example of reusing waste tires, plastic bottles, etc.
“The Youth Black Brigade Group developed this Green Garden voluntarily. On behalf of the Government of Timor-Leste, I would like to thank this special group for their courage and dedication to constructing this garden,” said Carlvalho.
Carvalho encouraged the Youth Brigade Black Group to keep up their work: “This special group needs to keep up this kind of spirit of voluntarism. It’s part of our action to combat rubbish from polluting our local areas.”
He said it was important to organize more young people from different neighborhoods in Dili to combat and prevent rubbish from polluting the land and water.
Since the establishment of the Timor-Leste’s Youth Brigade Black Group by SEA in 2020, the group has terraced more than 2043 hectares, digging more than 730 artificial lakes for conserving rainwater, collecting more than 695 tons of rubbish in the capital Dili, and planting more than 5000 trees.
Journalist: Filomeno Martins
Editor: Rafy Belo
