Volunteers plant trees and flowers while others clear rubbish
Iraqis mark International Volunteer Day with nationwide clean-up and tree-planting campaigns. All photos: Sinan Mahmoud / The National
Armed with gloves, brooms, rubbish bags and saplings, Baghdad residents set to work to transform the banks of the Tigris river which snakes through the capital
Under the theme If Everyone Did..., UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres urged people to consider volunteering to create a better world
Poor municipal services, pollution and rubbish have undermined Beirut's historical significance
Volunteers plant trees and flowers while others clear rubbish
Iraqis mark International Volunteer Day with nationwide clean-up and tree-planting campaigns. All photos: Sinan Mahmoud / The National
Armed with gloves, brooms, rubbish bags and saplings, Baghdad residents set to work to transform the banks of the Tigris river which snakes through the capital
Under the theme If Everyone Did..., UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres urged people to consider volunteering to create a better world
Poor municipal services, pollution and rubbish have undermined Beirut's historical significance
Volunteers plant trees and flowers while others clear rubbish
