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Commonwealth NGOs
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 Environmental Protection and Awareness Society
Chingola
Zambia
Email: mumba.chitambo@kcm.co.zm
Website:
Type: NGO
Scope: national
Interest in Forestry: peripheral
Description
The Environmental Protection and Awareness Society (EPAS) is a non - governmental, non -profit making
organization whose aim is to promote public environmental awareness and environmental
protection. It is dedicated to identifying factors affecting the environment, monitoring pollution and
environmental degradation, dissemination of information relating to the environment to the public,
encouraging community participation in environmental issues, liaising with relevant authorities on environmental
issues and making remedial measures where the need arises.Society membership is open
to any member of the public who shares the Society's vision of environmental protection and awareness.
All members are volunteers. EPAS was initiated in 1998 by an interested group of people,
who felt that something had to be done about the environmental degradation. It was started on completely
nothing (in terms of finances) except the will to protect the environment. After a laborious
process of registration, it was finally registered on 30th July 1999 as a Society. The Headquarters
for EPAS is in Chingola, a mining town on the Copperbelt Province of Zambia. EPAS does not yet
have a website but you can email them
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