27/08/2026
I CAME TO LUSAKA FOR GREENER PASTURES, THEN THIS HAPPENED...
I am from Mbala, and like many people who come to Lusaka looking for greener pastures and an opportunity to further their education, I arrived excited about what the city had to offer.
Then came the rainy season.
I remember having to drain water from my house using a bucketโliterally scooping water as though I was drawing from a river and carrying it outside. But what broke me even more was seeing what the water carried into my room: diapers, cigarette wrappers, plastics and all sorts of garbage.
At first, I thought my solution was simple: move to a better place.
But when I went to school, I started noticing something else. Students were littering too. And that's when I asked myself: Running away to a cleaner place might solve my problem, but does it solve Zambia's problem?
I realised that a conversation had to start.
So I decided that wherever I was, I would speak about responsibility. I wasn't thinking about starting a movement. I wasn't thinking about how far it would go. I simply wanted the person next to me to realise that they too have a role to play in keeping our environment clean.
And somehow, it became fulfilling.
Every time I spoke about it, I wanted to do it again. Before I knew it, I was planning where I would go, where I would stand and who I could speak to. The most surprising part? I started feeling guilty whenever I was around people and didn't say anything.
It felt like I had just missed a business opportunity. ๐
And then, somehow, that simple decision to speak wherever I was became TAKE IT TO THE BIN.
From conversations with students, to streets, to public buses, to schools, to partnerships, to now putting bins on buses in Ndolaโฆ
I honestly don't know where this journey will take us.
But one thing I know for sure,
Zambia shall
TAKE IT TO THE BIN....๐คญ๐...
By the way, all this started around 2025, then decided to create social media profiles in 2026 and this was because after a campaign people would ask, "whats your social media profile" njebele eeeee its like we aint running away from media huh...