Published:  00:00 Saturday - August 08, 2009

French voluntary organisation Solidarites Jeunesses Vietnam will begin a two-week campaign to preserve world heritage sites in Ha Long City next week.

Seven Vietnamese and one volunteer each from Canada, France, Germany and the Republic of Korea will clean up the beach, speak to local residents about the need to protect the environment, and consider measures to mitigate the adverse effects of economic and tourism development on the environment and people’s lives.

To be done in coordination with the Ha Long Bay Management Board, it is one of a dozen voluntary campaigns to preserve and popularise world heritage sites under the “World Heritage Volunteers: Patrimonito Rolls up the Sleeves” programme by UNESCO and Coordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service.