1. Youth Action
At Goumbook, we believe education is a powerful driver of sustainable change. In 2025, this belief guided our work through the Takween Al Ghurair program….
Empowering Ocean Stewards, a project designed to engage youth as citizen scientists, investigate marine plastic pollution, and contribute valuable data to global research, has completed…
In November 2024, Goumbook launched the “Empowering Ocean Stewards” pilot project, a new citizen science and ocean literacy project focused on addressing plastic pollution in…
In October 2023, The Emirates Schools Establishment and Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation launched the “Takween” National Program in partnership with Goumbook. This initiative aims to…
The 16 years old students collected 4,600 cigarette butts from Sunset Beach in Dubai after the Goumbook team ran the awareness session on plastic pollution,…
In collaboration with the Surf House Dubai and SWS Board Technology, the surfing community in Dubai gathered to join Save the Butts campaign and help…
A group of 17 volunteers cleaned Kite Beach from 3,500 cigarette butts. Their incredible commitment to protect the environment and the ideas they brought really…
We are very proud of the 54 volunteers from Nord Anglia School, a group of Y12 students who collected 9,200 cigarette butts in 40 mins….
Climate change is one of the biggest threats facing the world today. The UAE is classified among the categories of countries with the highest rate…
The environmental pollution caused by cigarette butts can be toxic to the planet as these butts do not decompose easily which can take up to…