BD Clean

BD Clean is a volunteer-based youth organization working to establish Bangladesh as a clean country. Every Friday, the organization selects a specific place in the country to clean. It also works to educate the local people about the benefits of a clean environment, and encourages them to properly dispose of garbage instead of littering.

BD Clean is a volunteer-based youth organization working to establish Bangladesh as a clean country. Every Friday, the organization selects a specific place in the country to clean. It also works to educate the local people about the benefits of a clean environment, and encourages them to properly dispose of garbage instead of littering.

History

BD Clean was founded on 3 June 2016 by Farid Uddin and several friends. Dhaka Clean was launched on 2 June 2016 as a roadside scavenger hunt from Shahbag to A SAARC Fountain in Kawran Bazar, which is now known as BD Clean. As of 2023, BD Clean has more than 44,000 active members. They have branch teams in 12 city corporations, 3 public universities, 58 districts and upazilas under the district.

Activities

BD Clean's 58 district and sub-district upazila teams individually select a local unclean spot on a specific day every week to clean. They educate the surrounding people about the benefits of cleanliness, and about the role of the people in realizing a clean Bangladesh. They request that the locals do not litter. Various awareness exhibitions and road shows are also organized by BD Clean. BD Clean has organized three exhibitions so far. On Friday, January 19, 2024, Habiganj - 4 Constituency Member of Parliament Syed Sayedul Haque, who is better known as Barrister Suman. At his invitation, with own funding, BD Clean was gone from Dhaka with more than six hundred volunteers to clean the dying Khoai River. Which again brings BD clean to the national discussion. Besides, BD Clean has also been hugely discussed among the capital residents as a result of the cleaning of several rivers and canals in the areas included in the Dhaka North City Corporation. On May 11, 2024, they divided into 21 groups and carried out cleaning operations on a 5 km section of the canal from Rangpur's Shyamasundari canal check post to Shapla.

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