The Kids Beach Garden is an eco-friendly beach geared towards promoting a sustainable environment via a communal engagement scheme which includes voluntary beach cleanup exercises, recycling of single-use plastics, gardening composting, animal conservation, tree planting, and proper waste management.
The focus on children aims at bridging the curricular lacuna that puts little or no emphasis on the relevance of the shoreline and ocean to the environment. Recognizing the socioeconomic and strategic significance of Lagos as a coastal city blessed with inland waterways, there is the need to breed a crop of environmentally conscious youths who can put up formidable responses irrespective of their endeavors in the quest to curb environmental challenges such as plastic pollution, poaching, deforestation and drought, among other factors responsible for global warming and climate change.
As a non-commercial beach, projects are carried out through donations and grants obtained from other non-profit organizations.
Progress reports
By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans
Type of commitment
- Community or Locally Managed Marine Areas
- Ecosystem-based Adaptation
By 2020, conserve at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on the best available scientific information
Type of commitment
- No take marine protected area
- Marine protected area with partial protection
- Multiple use marine protected area
Enhance the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law as reflected in UNCLOS, which provides the legal framework for the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources, as recalled in paragraph 158 of The Future We Want
Type of commitment
- Strengthening ocean governance, for example through the development of a national ocean policy or regional ocean policy
April/2019
Engaging 25,000 direct beneficiaries about the need for proper waste management in four local government areas of Lagos State
October/2020
A significant reduction in the use and disposal of single use plastics by forty percent in Lagos State
October/2022
Reduction in the poaching of sea turtle nests by at least 40 percent in the next four years
