The President of Latvia welcomed the fact that more and more effort was made in improvement of environment on the Big Cleanup day and amount of waste thrown away to nature decreased every year. “This shows that we have become more responsible,” said Raimonds Vējonis.
The President of Latvia participated in the Big Cleanup in Nature Park “Ogres Zilie kalni”, where he made birdhouses together with the children and people from Ogre and surroundings and planted trees at Dubkalni waterbody.
President of Latvia Raimonds Vējonis is the patron of the Big Cleanup. One of the goals of the Big Cleanup movement is to clean up Latvia on the way to its centenary birthday, by making our country be the cleanest and greenest country in the world.