REGISTERED volunteers for the Let’s Do It Cyprus! – We Clean Cyprus in a Day clean-up campaign, to be held on Sunday, have reached 6,500, the office of the Commissioner for the Environment has announced.

According to the announcement, preparations for the campaign have entered the final stretch.

The deadline for volunteers to register is Thursday at noon. The campaign will start on Sunday at 10am at the chapel of the Thirteen Martyrs at Ayioi Omologites, located in the park behind the Presidential Palace.

Areas to be cleaned are listed on the volunteer network’s website – www.ldicyprus.org – and comprise the bulk of the Nicosia and Limassol districts.

Let’s Do It Cyprus! is part of the global Let’s Do It World! clean-up campaign which aims to remove garbage from natural areas. It boasts being the largest volunteer programme ever organised.

The idea for the mass movement was born in Estonia in 2008, when 50,000 volunteers got together to clean up 10,000 tons of garbage from forests, beaches and cities, and managed to do it in just five hours.

Today, Let’s Do It World! includes over 100 participating countries, including Cyprus.

Sunday’s event follows a successful initial nationwide campaign on September 29, 2012, that saw 4,000 volunteers remove over 20 tons of garbage from Cyprus’ natural areas.

This time, the campaign also includes events and actions that aim at educating and informing people on sustainable use of natural resources and waste.

Further, events aiming at promoting Cyprus’ natural beauty are planned, with a view to introducing more people to its grandeur and creating the sense of duty towards protecting and preserving the island’s environment.