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EDA JULY MOVIE SCREENING – BAG IT
Back by popular demand, EDA partnered up
with VOX Cinemas in Mercato and showed a
second screening of ‘Bag It’ on the 31 st of July
for EDA members that had missed the first
screening in September 2012.
Try going a day without plastic. Plastic is everywhere
and infiltrates our lives in unimaginable
and frightening ways. In this touching and often
flat-out-funny film, we follow “everyman” Jeb
Berrier, who is admittedly not a tree hugger,
as he embarks on a global tour to unravel the
complexities of our plastic world. What starts
as a film about plastic bags evolves into a
wholesale investigation into plastic and its affect
on our waterways, oceans, and even our own
bodies. We see how our crazy-for-plastic world
has finally caught up to us and what we can do
about it. Today. Right now.
NEWS
UAE General Authority of Sports and Youth Welfare
EDA SUPPORTS ‘MY UAE SUMMER’
EDA, along with the UAE General Authority
for Youth and Sports Welfare, supported 20
children to learn how to dive and get a diving
certification as part of the summer government
initiative called, ‘Saif Belady’ (My UAE Summer).
The children’s training was conducted in
Arabic in the TDIC Dive Centre in the Diving/
Heritage Village.
The inauguration of the initiative took place in
The Dubai Mall Aquarium where divers held
a banner underwater to mark the beginning
of the summer activities. Several government
officials and children taking part in ‘Saif Belady’
attended the opening.
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