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Video: CNN-IBN Ordinary people, extrarordinary tales (May 06) 
Anita Bhargava tells her story to CNN-IBN about "Let`s Do It Delhi" project
Message: Anita writes from Let's do it! Delhi (Apr 22)
Team of volunteers in New Delhi, planning a city-wide clean-up in the capital of India, on 26th of September 2010, is busy at work. Read team-leader Anita's message and report about the recent developments and future plans below.
Country-wide cleanup in Latvia on this Saturday, April 24 (Apr 21)
The 3rd annual Great Cleanup project is kicking off in Latvia this Saturday, April 24. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to take part in the voluntary campaign. This year the theme is culture. Activists will be asked to clean up and improve places that are of historical and cultural importance.
Video: Slovenia having the largest volunteer action ever, plans for all-europe clean-up taking shape (Apr 18)
See a video from Slovenian TV-channel, where organizers talk about the action on 17th of April and European commissioner proposes the idea of all-europe clean-up for next year. Translation to English also below.
350 000 people participated in the clean-ups in Slovenia and Lithuania (Apr 18)
Both clean-ups in Lithuania and Slovenia yesterday, on 17th of April were a huge success - Lithuania had it's biggest clean-up yet engaging more than 100 000 volunteers, Slovenia broke an absolute record by engaging 12% of the population - 246 000 people directly in the action.
300 000 volunteers cleaning up two countries tomorrow (Apr 16)
Interview with Vytautas Krasnickas from Lithuanian team (Apr 16)
Tomorrow, 17th of April, is a big day in two countries - Latvia and Slovenia are both having groundbreaking national clean-up days - huge numbers of participants are expected to take part. Here is a short interview with Lithuanian action manager Vytautas.
Interview with Nara Petrovič from Slovenian team (Apr 14)
With just few more days to go until saturday, the 17th of April, we asked few questions from one of the organizers of the big Slovenian Clean-up day - Nara Petrovič. Read about how the clean-up day is organized, how much garbage are they actually aiming to clean up with how many people and much more from the interview below:
Speech from Slovenia: Pavel Gantar on cleaning and caring (Apr 14)
Read a great speech given as the introductory speech on the debate on waste management entitled "Clean Slovenia forever!" by Pavel Gantar - long time civic activist, human rights protector, Slovenian politician and sociologist now a Chairman of the National Assembly of Slovenia.
Video: Clean and green fashion-show in Slovenia (Mar 26)
Today an open-air fashion show, presenting 'green' fashion pieces by different designers, was held on the streets of the capital of Slovenia - Ljubljana, to support the clean-up action taking place on 17th of April. See the video of the fashion show.
PRESS RELEASE Romania: Country Clean-Up on September 25th! (Mar 26)
Bucureşti, March 25th 2010
Romanian team announces the clean-up day! (Mar 26)
In a press conference held on 25th of March, the Let's do it! Romania team announced the day of Let's do it! Romania clean-up - 25th of September 2010!
Video: Pilot clean-up in Delhi attracts nearly thousand people (Mar 25)
Video news-story about pilot clean-up in New Delhi on 20th of March.
Yahoo News: Street vendors, corporate hands clear Delhi garbage (Mar 20)
New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) At least 1,000 people, ranging from employees of leading corporate groups and the civic wings of the Delhi government to street vendors and individual volunteers, Saturday cleared more than 500 tonnes of litter from the Bhikaji Cama commercial complex in south Delhi in a unique citizens' initiative that aims to clean public spaces in the capital before the Commonwealth Games.
Euronews: Massive Countryside clean-up in Portugal (Mar 20)
It is known as Clean Portugal – a massive campaign to clear away waste and litter from the countryside. Tens of thousands of people have taken part in the operation, including the country’s president.
Hindustan Times: Volunteers say ‘Let’s do it Delhi’ (Mar 20)
On Saturday, south Delhi’s Bhikaji Cama Place looked cleaner than it ever has been — all thanks to a YouTube video. The usually-busy commercial complex woke up to an unusual cleaning campaign, as more than 900 volunteers gathered early in the morning, with gloves and garbage bags in hand.
Massive cleanup in Portugal, pilot cleanups in Delhi and Romania completed today! (Mar 20)
Equinox day 20th of March 2010 - Portugal did its country cleanup. At the same time Indian city of New Delhi and Romania did their pilot cleanups. Some estimate that approximately 100 000 people participated in the country-wide clean-up of Portugal. The official statistics are not yet available except for the pilot in Delhi where aprox.1000 people took part. More updates coming up soon. Congratulations for everybody in Portugal, New Delhi and Romania who made it happen!!!
End of February in Slovenia; 48 days to go till April 17! (Mar 03)
Nara from Slovenian team gives us an overview how things are developing before the big clean-up on 17th of April:
Video: Limpar Portugal progressing in Portugal (Feb 12)
Have a look at how Limpar Portugal is progressing in this short video with english subtitles. The organizers are engaging hundreds of volunteers to continue with mapping. Looking good in North, but more troublesome in South Portugal - more activists are needed.
Message from Let's do it! Delhi: We have the Government support! (Feb 10)
Pilot clean-up in Guimarães Portugal (Feb 04)
On 3rd of February, a pilot clean-up of Limpar Portugal took place in the first historic capital of Portugal - Guimarães.
Fight against litter picks up online, writes Dubai weekly 7DAYS (Feb 03)
Fed up with seeing the environment strewn with garbage, activists from around the globe aim to muster a million volunteers this year for a mass clean-up piloted via the internet, organisers said.
Estonia launches a global movement (Jan 28)
Marc Hyman writes in his blog: The hottest new Estonian export is not a product or a service. It is the deceptively simple idea that, if you make it fun, and create a sufficiently groovy vibe around it, you can mobilize huge numbers of people to clean up massive amounts of illegally-dumped garbage — all in one day. The concept, perhaps better described as a movement, is called Let’s Do It!
Media response after the conference and Delhi pilot cleanup (Jan 25)
Let's do it! Conference in Tallinn this weekend (Jan 21)
This weekend, on 23rd and 24th on January, more than 40 people from seven different countries will meet to share experiences and work out new solutions for national clean-up actions.
Residents of New Delhi have taken up a novel initiative to clean up their city (Jan 20)
Based on a very successful model of ‘Let’s Do It Estonia’, where Estonia was cleaned up through a process involving private citizens, corporates and civic bodies, a group in Delhi is likewise is reaching out to civic bodies and took up the Rose Garden (opposite IIT Delhi) as its first project.
Developments in different countries (Jan 20)
Things in Romania, Slovenia and Portugal have been heating up more and more. New initiative has started from Italy.
AFP: Massive clean-up drive in Latvia, Lithuania (Apr 18)
18.04.2009
RIGA (AFP) – Latvians and Lithuanians turned out in tens of thousands Saturday to clean up their Baltic nations as part of theinternational Earth Day environmental campaign, organisers said.
Latvia: More than 110 000 volunteers participated in the Great Cleanup Day (Apr 08)
18.04.2009
The provisional estimates by organisers of the Great Cleanup Day show that today's grand cleanup action brought together more than 110 000 volunteers who collected 340 000 thousands 60 litre bags with waste.
