ODYSSEY #102 - MALAYSIA : Water village under plastic threat

FRENCH AND ENGLISH SUBTITLE IN THE VIDEO. The Foundation teams, always taking real action, accompanied by teams from the organisation NOW! (Local NGO supporting us on this stopover) went to the island of Gaya, located just opposite Kota Kinabalu, to visit the heart of one of the villages, home to refugees from the Philippines, built on piles, over the sea. The village is home to more than 1500 refugees with children, families and animals who live just a few centimetres above a layer of plastic waste sometimes buried several metres deep. It is terrifying, shocking and unfortunately, these young children whom we talked to have never known anything other than this universe of plastic, more and more plastic, everywhere! For them, throwing waste into the sea and living on metres of waste buried in the seabed has become an inevitable normality! The Race for Water Foundation is dedicated to the preservation of the water and the oceans in particular. Today, seriously under threat from plastic pollution, it is imperative that this essential resource for life is protected.To prevent plastic waste from reaching the waterways and oceans by developing social models and business models that give value to plastic waste and hence encourage its collection. Follow the odyssey : → Website : https://www.raceforwater.org/ → Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/raceforwaterfoundation/ → Twitter : https://www.twitter.com/RaceForWater → Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/raceforwater → Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/company/race-for-water-foundation