UN Earth Champion Afroz Shah Cleans The Versova Beach, Big B Joins In Too

Afroz Shah, a 36-year-old lawyer at the Bombay High Court is a UN Earth Champion. He won the prestigious honour for cleaning up the Mumbai’s Versova Beach. Today, the lawyer launched a clean-up campaign at Versova again, which was attended by celebrities and there was BMC too.

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Around 20 children from Dhai Akshar were present at the clean-up too. Afroz started the mission Versova clean-up in 2015 which began to grew as a big community since then. Since the past year, around 4,000 tons of garbage has been lifted from the beach.

Amitabh Bachchan, who resides in the area, came forward and supported the clean-up. The actor put on his gloves and picked up litter for a duration of 30 minutes. Pooja Bhatt and Pooja Bedi also joined the cleanup movement today.?

In India 13 other beaches will also get a swarm of environment friendly volunteers soon with Shah presiding over the beach campaign that would clear tjhe marine litter from Indian beaches.