Other events in Baltic States

“Let’s Do It 2012” voluntary work day on Saturday had at least 30,382 people participating, many more than had registered for it, LETA/Public Broadcasting reports.

1,220 different events took place in order to do something for one's home town or community, initiators said. The most active participants were in Tallinn and Harjumaa county with 8,032 people, followed by Saaremaa island's 3,138 and Tartu county's 2,546.

Head of the day, Estonian Nature Foundation board member Tarmo Tüür said that many more people had been present than expected – especially young people but also a lot of elderly people. Many locations gave positive comments about less garbage being around. Many pointed out that the Let's Do It! initiative is an initiative that joins people well.

While the first “Let’s Do It” campaign in 2008 focused on cleaning Estonian nature from garbage and the second one in 2009 on the “My Estonia” idea-generation campaign, this year the majority of the voluntary work initiatives focussed on cleaning the neighbourhood of garbage or fixing up some community building or object but there were brainstorming events scheduled as well as environment protection initiatives.

The day was organised by the Estonian Nature Foundation, Estonian Village Movement "Kodukant", Estonian Heritage Protection Round Table, Let's Do It! My Estonia, Estonian Non-Governmental Organisations Union EMSL. Partners included Citizenship Society Foundation, EMT, Swedbank, Coca-Cola HBC Eesti, Refonda, Dorpat, Nordic Hotels, Statoil, Pakendikeskus, Tamrex, Mediapool Vizeum etc.