Background

Tanzania, Zanzibar is a small group of islands located on the east coast of Tanzania. The inhabitants don't have a waste sorting system, therefore litter, garbage and hazardous waste as batteries, are thrown everywhere.

For 5 years have students from Christopher Polhemgymnasiet on Gotland visited the world heritage city Stone Town on Zanzibar to teach and inform the inhabitants about waste sorting, and thus improving their environmentally awareness. The goal of the projects have been to increase the native inhabitants interest for keeping and protecting their world heritage city, which has similarities with Gotlands own world heritage city Visby.