STEP 01
Collect
Children explore the riverbank with guidance, gathering suitable discarded plastic and learning about the environmental cost of waste.
01 / THE PROBLEM
A river
of darkness.
Onitsha has a life shaped by the Niger. Along the Waterside, fishing families depend on the river, taking their canoes onto the water as daylight fades.
For fishermen working after dark, dependable lighting matters. Where kerosene lanterns are used, their flames can flicker, consume fuel, and leave soot on the glass.
Along the same riverbank, discarded sachets, bottles, and broken plastic objects accumulate, creating another challenge for the community and the river environment.
“By midnight, the light is half what it was at sunset.”
A narrative line describing the lighting challenge, not a documented quotation from an individual fisherman.
