One Plastic Bag 2023 Gambia Tour Schedule Join the party of the decade! We hope to see you there.
Autographed books will be available for purchase and light refreshments will be served. Meet and greet with Miranda Paul, environmentalist Isatou Ceesay, and watch live recycling demonstrations with the volunteers from Women’s Initiative the Gambia. Please join us for the opening event, a book launch and autographing party at Timbooktoo Bookstore in Fajara, Gambia! (3 Garba Jahumpa Road Bakau New Town, Fajara M Section.) The event will be held on Friday, February 17th from 3:00-6:00 p.m. Tell us what do you think about One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia.One Plastic Bag Celebrates 25 years of recycling with Gambian Tour! Juvenile Nonfiction / People & Places / United States / African American.Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Political.More books like One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia may be found by selecting the categories below: This handsome presentation of grassroots environmental activism is certain to inspire young readers." - The Horn Book Magazine-Journal
An informative author’s note, glossary, timeline, and suggestions for further reading accompany the story. Zunon’s collages, with their vivid colors, elegant patterns, and varied textures-especially those from actual plastic bags-provide a beautiful and authentic entry into the story. Author Paul has written a clear and sensitive account of Ceesay and her fellow activists’ ingenious solution to the plastic bag problem (they wash them, cut the bags into strips, and crochet the strips into small purses to sell in the city). In Njau, Gambia, a young woman named Isatou Ceesay became concerned when she learned that these non-biodegradable objects, discarded after breakage and tears made them no longer usable, were attracting disease-bearing insects and that domestic animals often died after eating the bags, she decided to do something about it. "In the 1980s in the cities of Gambia, a switch from using baskets made of natural materials to non-biodegradable plastic bags led to a problem: roadsides began to be choked by ever-growing piles of plastic bags. Parent Company: Lerner Publishing Group Read a Description of One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia Book Description:
List Price: $19.99 Format: Library Binding, 32 pages
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