Local nonprofit, “We Aim Higher,” which focuses on holding “human service” events to help communities, is organizing a Bronx clean-up event in honor of Earth Day, Friday, April 22.

 

Meanwhile, Earth Day’s mission, according to the website, earthday.org, is to diversify, educate and activate the environmental movement worldwide. According to earthday.org, the first Earth Day was held in 1970, and the organization behind it is the world’s largest recruiter to the environmental movement, working with more than 150,000 partners in over 192 countries to drive positive action for the planet.

 

Symone Stokes, founder and CEO of “We Aim Higher,” said the group will be cleaning neighborhoods in the Bronx and is looking for volunteers to join in the effort. The group is meeting at Crotona Avenue and East Tremont Avenue at noon on Saturday, April 23, (the day after Earth Day).

 

Founded in 2018 by CEO, Stokes said the original aim of “We Aim Higher” was to support local families and communities, with a focus on making tools and resources available to them, tools and resources which were otherwise unavailable. Over the intervening years, she said “We Aim Higher” has taken up a much broader calling of developing lower and middle class communities through human and social services, with an emphasis on establishing connections within and between them.

 

Volunteers can visit the group’s website to sign up for the event here: https://www.weaimhigher.org/events/we-aim-highers-earth-day-bronx-clean-up.