Isatou Ceesay named “Queen of Recycling in The Gambia” as new documentary is released from Climate Heroes. Read more or watch the video here. The bag has to be able to close and be sealed – overstuffed plastic bags will not be accepted and you can’t tie or knot the top of the bag Good to know: Make sure you leave plenty of time for your doctor to write a note as it can sometimes take a few weeks and might incur a cost. It is rare to find a children’s book with such an important message about our environment, that is set outside the US, and is illustrated so beautifully! One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and The Recycling Women of The Gambia is the inspirational, true story about littered plastic bags and the woman who stood up and transformed her community. It is the perfect book to introduce environmental topics to kids like recycling, and also teaches that even one person can make a difference. The story begins on a walk in Njau, Gambia.

Author Miranda Paul and illustrator Elizabeth Zunon tell the story of Isatou Ceesay in this poignant and inspiring picture-book biography, chronicling how the Gambian woman came up with a solution to the mounds of plastic trash strangling her small village. Although she had noticed the growing problem of plastic waste while walking through the village, it was the death of one of her grandmother's goats - strangled by the plastic bag it had eaten - that inspired Ceesay to begin working on the problem. Collecting the bags, she came up with a way to rework plastic into thread, which she and a group of women used to weave purses. This recycling effort was initially met with ridicule, but eventually it proved successful, not just as a means of using old plastic bags, but as a source of income for the women. Many good things would eventually come of this project... NEW! During the COVID-19 outbreak and school closures, many publishers are allowing educators to read picture books to their students in closed-link recordings. If you want to read One Plastic Bag on a video for your students, fill out this online form from Lerner Publishing to request permissions. View additional teacher resources here. up to 10 kg of meat, potatoes or dairy products from Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Greenland. You are not allowed to bring this type of food into the UK from any other country; One Plastic Bag would be a great resource as a springboard for Earth Day activities or a school wide venture into a community action project. Other smaller scale activities include: One Plastic Bag is the story of how one woman cleans up her community, inspiring friends and neighbors to help create plastic, recycled purses, and reduce the trash in her village.Explore a world of innovative ideas to upcycle, recycle, or repurpose plastic into usable items or beautiful artwork. All Done Monkey * Crafty Moms Share * Educators Spin on it * Growing Book by Book * Imagination Soup I’m Not the Nanny * InCultural Parent * Kid World Citizen * Mama Smiles * Multicultural Kid Blogs * Spanish Playground Supporters outside of the Gambia can host a school visit or virtual Q&A with Miranda and Isatou to help us raise funds for books, transportation, and programming for Gambian youth! Learn more here. Wonderfully inspiring! The Author's Note provides more details and there is also a Wolof Glossary and Pronunciation Guide, a Timeline and Suggestions for Further Reading. The illustrations deftly incorporate plastic bags. Highly recommended!!! This presentation features slides with bulleted information about climate, school, food, language, and aspects of everyday Gambian life. Also includes photos and additional links.

In the USA you can bring an emotional support animal (ESA) on a flight with you. An ESA is a companion animal that a medical professional says provides some benefit for a person with a mental health condition, they are usually cats or dogs, but can be other animals…One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia tells the inspiring story of five women who creatively dealt with their village’s plastic trash problem. Despite limited resources and ridicule, Isatou and her friends persevered for more than a decade, eventually realizing economic empowerment through their recycled plastic purse project. The book also includes bonus information such as a Wolof language glossary, timeline of actual events, and photos of the women of Njau. This two-per-sheet graphic has cut and fold dotted lines so that students can print, cut, and fold to make their very own One Plastic Bag bookmark! Bronze: Pomelo Books * Author Jacqueline Woodson * Papa Lemon Books * Goosebottom Books * Author Gleeson Rebello * ShoutMouse Press * Author Mahvash Shahegh * China Institute.org * Live Oak Media

People thought I was too young and that women couldn't be leaders. I took these things as challenges; they gave me power. I didn't call out the problems- I called out solutions." Ifyou do want to take any of these liquids in your hand luggage you need to make sure of a few things: In One Plastic Bag, Isatou Ceesay turns old plastic bags into new purses. You can turn old bags into something new, too! Follow these steps to make a jump rope. Linked to Common Core Learning Outcomes! Learn how to count in Wolof, and try converting these amounts of U.S. Dollars into Gambian dalasi. Involves addition, some multiplication or division. Grades 2-4.This tour is hosted in partnership with Women Initiative the Gambia, a charitable organization. A special thank you to Lerner Publishing Group for donating books for several villages and schools. A young woman, Isatou discovers that plastic bags are being used more and more in her village- and being tossed aside, littering the ground. Isatou Ceesay's weaved basket breaks as she is carryng fruit. She finds a plastic bag and carries her fruit there instead. Isatou likes her bag but notices that they accumulate more and more on the ground, causing serious damages to the soil and animals that roam. An idea is born. What if she could reuse these bags in a way that they would not end up thrown on the floor? Isatou begins sewing bags together into purses and thus an envronmental hero is born. Animal lovers may be disappointed to find out that most airlines in the UK do not allow pets to travel in the cabin with their owners and there is a charge to bring your pet in the hold. Exceptions are made for service animals, like assistance or guide dogs which will travel with their owner free of charge.