Her name is Gaia and the girl is only 9 years old who with her little friend in Ischia was awarded a certificate of merit for having cleaned up the beach.
She bears the name of the Earth - Gaia - and has been away from traditional beach games for some time. Its purpose? Clean up the beach of the Mandra, on the island of Ischia, from cigarette butts and plastic waste, together with his friend Diana. And so a photo of the little girl, just 9 years old, struggling with a voluntary cleaning went around the web and was worth a prize.
"The girl in the pink costume" or "The girl with the net", as Gaia has been renamed, "has shown the world of adults how simple it is to be concrete every day in doing one's part for the protection of the environment", they say from the Marine Protected Area of the Kingdom of Neptune.
A game, that of Gaia and Diana, which has become a warning: they enjoyed collecting butts and garbage and at the same time they gave a life lesson to the "grown-ups" who had left that waste right there.
From a photo taken and from the post published on Facebook by Caterina Iacono of the Marine Protected Area, unexpected reactions of esteem followed in a few hours and the image became viral, so much so that the identification of the child and the thanks.
Precisely in order not to leave this gesture on the back burner and to act as a spur, why not, to their peers, thanks to an idea by Gaetano Di Meglio, Director of Il Dispari, the two little ones were rewarded with a certificate of merit and a little thought from the Marine Protected Area.
The 9-year-old little Gaia has been called "the girl in the pink costume" or "the girl with the net" who, together with her ...
Posted by Marine Protected Area of Neptune's Kingdom on Thursday, July 25, 2019
Talented Gaia and Diana, your gesture really fills us with joy and hope!
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