Factsheet

Keepers of the Land: The Curious Case of the Contaminated River

20 January 2022
Keepers of the Land: The Curious Case of the Contaminated River

Just like Nora in Paradiseville, people around the world are hard at work to ensure a brighter, cleaner future for their communities.

This comic book was designed to present the topic of chemicals and waste management and the work of the Special Programme to a non-technical audience group; the presentation is primarily focused on young adults. The message was designed to also appeal to older audiences to bring to their attention, in a novel and simply put manner, the issues surrounding the sound management of chemicals and waste. It may also be of use to government sector staff in the chemicals and waste related community who may be able to use it for national level awareness raising campaigns that target the general public given that it presents complex scientific material on in important issue in a clear and simple way.