In Pics: 800 Kids From San Francisco Spent a Day Cleaning a Beach

A large number of Indian-origin kids too were happy and proud to be a part of the beach clean-up campaign.

Catch ‘em young and imbibe good values, seems to be the motto of environment-conscious organisations that conduct such ocean beach clean up programs. (Photo Courtesy: John Cooney)

On 24 May, some 800 school kids in San Francisco gathered to detoxify the beach for the marine life along the California Coast. The catalyst was the Kids Ocean Day Adopt-A-Beach program that is funded through the California Coastal Commission, and the Marine Science Institute.

Run by the Marine Science Institute (Redwood City), about 800 elementary school kids in San Francisco arrived to clean up Ocean Beach. (Photo Courtesy: John Cooney.)

Children sift through the sand to look for trash that needs to be separated and carefully put away. (Photo Courtesy: John Cooney.)

Children look for micro-plastics, the modern day poison for marine life. (Photo Courtesy: John Cooney)

With older citizens as fellow participants, guides and help, the children worked with enthusiasm. (Photo Courtesy: John Cooney)

Hard work can also bring on hunger – but it’s fun to break for lunch. (Photo Courtesy: John Cooney)

Lunch time to re-energise and return. (Photo Courtesy: John Cooney)

That is a lot of trash and the marine life is sure to breathe easy now that it has been cleaned. (Photo Courtesy: John Cooney)

Weed out the trash but be kind to the marine life. The children marvel at a crab they meet while at work. (Photo Courtesy: John Cooney)

The children, guided by Aerial Art coordination by Carter Brooks, line up for aerial art. (Photo Courtesy: John Cooney)

A helicopter flies over to take the promised aerial art photograph. (Photo Courtesy: John Cooney)

The children form a squid shape that is seen from the skies. (Aerial photo Courtesy: Kevin Lozaw)